Regina Hall on 'Black Monday' season 2's biggest lesson: 'Trust no one'

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The actor spoke with Newsweek about playing a successful black woman working on 1980s Wall Street and how there's isn't 'room for loyalty' in that business.

ended with a bang. No, seriously: The finale ended not just with the stock market crashing, but with a man falling to his death and killing another person as he smashes into a stretch Lamborghini.

Now that it's being run by Dawn and Blair, Mo's former firm—the Jammer Group—has gotten a makeover for the second season ofEmboldened by her new position of power, Dawn's overhauled the company and hired a bunch of women to handle stock trading at the firm. Despite the fact that Blair's the one getting all of the attention and praise for Mo's downfall, she's really the one calling the shots at the new and improved TBD Group.

"Dawn is still incredibly influenced by what she's learned from Mo," Hall said."She is playing in a much larger and darker arena, and she is faced with having to make a lot bigger decisions now that she no longer has Mo around to make them. But she gets the job done."taught viewers anything, though, it's that your position is never safe—especially when you're surrounded by snakes.

There's a scene in the first episode [of season 2] where you really see how, on one hand, Dawn feels incredibly powerful and smart and really aware of the position she's in. But she's always reminded that she is a black woman. As much as she's on Wall Street, she's still in the same body, which is a female body—a black female body. Honestly, even beyond the color, she's a woman. So, you will start to see how that was an unexpected prison space during that time.

 

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