Lynn Whitfield stopped by the Jezebel office to talk about her role on the Sanaa Lathan Netflix series Nappily Ever After, a movie where Whitfield plays, she says, “a mother who believes in fairytales.” In her decades-long career, she’s never shied away from roles that are some combination of challenging, prickly, and sensual, from 1996’s A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, to her character Lady Mae on the OWN series Greenleaf.