Gabrielle Union: We Need More Women Of Color 'Over A Size 4, With Darker Skin Tones' In Starring Rol

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By Emily Tess Katz

Updated: 12/08/2014 1:59 pm EST

Echoing the sentiment of her "Top Five" co-star Chris Rock, Gabrielle Union sees a glaring lack of parts for black women in film. But she also recognizes a force to be celebrated behind today's more diverse television landscape, and that force's name is Shonda Rhimes.

In a HuffPost Live interview on Thursday, Dec. 4 the actress praised the queen of ABC's Thursday night programming and her commitment to featuring all types of women in prominent roles.

"Success breeds more opportunity," she said, "so with the success of 'Scandal,' with the success of 'How To Get Away With Murder,' -- basically Shonda has taken over the most important night of television with a very diverse cast of characters."

Rhimes has featured "black women, [women of] all different sexual orientations, religions, [and] sizes," Union described, a rare offering of diversity onscreen.

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