In an exclusive conversation with ESSENCE, Patina Miller opened up about the evolution of Raquel “Raq” Thomas as Power Book III: Raising Kanan heads into its highly anticipated fourth season. With Kanan stepping further into independence, Miller spoke about a shifting mother-son dynamic rooted in both love and conflict.
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00:00Rob Markman So it's amazing to see how much time has
00:03passed too with the Power Universe has been in existence for over a decade now.
00:09How fulfilling for you has it been to be such an important part of this franchise?
00:17Tia Hill It's pretty incredible.
00:20I will say that.
00:21I am so lucky to be a part of this project, a part of the universe.
00:28I think our show, we have such a good show.
00:31I love it so much.
00:33I think the characters are so special.
00:35The characters are so nuanced and real.
00:38And the storytelling is, you know, for me, one of the pleasures of this is being able
00:44to tell this story in this way in this, you know, throwback a 90s piece.
00:49It's like it's a period piece.
00:51And to really put people in that era.
00:55And what we've done, I'm very proud of, you know, the storytelling and because people
01:00already know who Kanan is, right, because we watched him for all those seasons of the
01:06original Power.
01:07But what they don't know is how he became who he became and how Ghost and Tommy became
01:13who they became.
01:14We're all sort of influenced by Raquel Thomas, Marvin, Lulu, Unique, all of these amazing
01:26people who surrounded Kanan and who were in the South Side at that time that really kind
01:32of started like what Power is.
01:33So it feels really special to me to be able to tell the origin story of one of these characters
01:39and to be at the beginning.
01:42Like it's incredible.
01:43I've had a great, great, great time telling the story.