queen latifah as principal role for the movie no credebily for it

FYI...she is nominated for an Emmy for her performance

Since when does an actor have to have the same life experience as the character they play? If that was true, there would be no historical movies, no sci-fi movies, no fantasy movies, hardly any porn and no movies where people play animals or fish.

How dumb would that be?

No two persons ever watch the same movie.