Treme’s Khandi Alexander: New Orleans Is in Her Character’s Blood and Bones

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<p>When <em><a href=Treme co-creator David Simon approached Khandi Alexander for his new HBO drama, she didn’t even have to read the script.

“I said, ‘It doesn’t even matter what it is, I’m in,” Alexander tells TVGuide.com. “It was just the opportunity to work with David again. To be in the company of someone you feel so comfortable with creatively and personally, there was no second guessing. It was a yes before I read the material.”

Treme overcomes tragedy, on-screen and off

So Alexander, who played a drug addict in Simon’s Emmy-winning HBO miniseries The Corner, was even more thrilled when she saw just what Simon and co-creator Eric Overmyer were up to with their look at post-Katrina New Orleans…


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