Rosewood is More Than a Pre-Empire Show

21 Oct, 2015

Rosewood’s time slot is sure to lure a few fans to tune-in before watching the colossal hit Empire, but as Gabrielle Dennis tells The Trending Report, “We’re hoping they stay a while.”

‘Rosewood’ Star Gabrielle Dennis

Best known for her role on BET’s hit series ‘The Game,’ Dennis is excited to take on what she calls ‘the biggest acting role of her career” as Pippy, the sister and personal assistant to Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. played by Hollywood hunk Morris Chestnut.

Chestnut leads the cast as a private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated technology to help Miami PD solve crimes no one else can. Just how far the work relationship with his unlikely partner, Detective Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz) will go is a plot that will only thicken with the recently announced recurring role of Taye Diggs.

“There are a lot of layers to the show,” Dennis says. “There’s something for everyone.” Rosewood is a medical drama but it’s the structure of family and varying relationships that anchor the show. “There’s the family dynamic that comes with having a strong mother in addition to the sibling connections that come into play,” Dennis says.

Dubbed as the ‘toxicology queen,’ Dennis assists with her brother’s cases while working alongside him and her fiancée, DNA specialist Tara Milly Ixikoff (Anna Konkle). “Yeah, you may have missed the lesbian reference in the first episode,” Dennis says. The audience will get to see “my character outside of the lab and what her career path was going to be before working with her brother.”

Lorraine Toussaint takes the role as family matriarch.  Sure she meddles in Rosewood’s love life and holds weekly family gatherings but it’s the major life changes she’ll endure during the season that will profoundly affect her children.

Due to his own medical ailments, Rosewood embraces life and lives every day to the fullest. It’s this heightened awareness that allows him to see details in cases others can’t.  It’s also the reason for his exercise routine that includes regular runs-sometimes shirtless runs.

“Morris makes coming to work fun because he’s always wearing a smile,” Dennis says.  “So far I’ve seen him topless once which is a definite plus.”

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