[Wolfie]

Ms. Bassett still ticked that she didn't win for the Tina Turner movie. Also, I'll give you a dollar if she was ever even offered the role in the first place.

[codebreaker]

I believe she was offered the role.

The part is not degrading in any sense of the word, throughout the whole film the character of the waitress refuses take charity from the Billy Bob Thornton prision guard role and the love scene only occurs at the end.

I thought that Halle was too beautiful to play a waitress, but she is believable as the mom yelling at her kids..