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#WhereTheyAtNow: Sicily Sewell-Johnson Reflects On Her Amazing Acting Career And Talks About Her New Career As A Chef!

<p>Now we all know ya’ll use to love coming home to sit in front of your televisions to watch the hit sitcom &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One on One” back in the day&period; Recently&comma; we caught up with Sicily Sewell-Johnson&comma; who is most known for playing Spirit Jones&comma; the best friend to Kyla Pratt’s character Breanna Barnes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sicily appeared on the show for the first four seasons from 2001 to 2005&period; However&comma; before starring on the popularized sitcom she also starred alongside Angela Bassett&comma; Taye Diggs&comma; Whoopi Goldberg and a host of others in the 1998 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;How Stella Got Her Groove Back&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Today&comma; Sicily is a mother of two adorable girls&comma; and she is also planning to take over the culinary world as a chef&period; She owns a restaurant with her mother&comma; and recently she moved from California to New York with hopes of expanding their business&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out our full interview with Sicily below to see what she&&num;8217&semi;s been up to&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&colon; <strong>Many of our Roommates remember your role as Spirit Jones from the hit show &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One on One” with Kyla Pratt&comma; Flex Alexander&comma; and Robert Ri’card&period; What was it like to be a cast member one of the hottest sitcoms during the early 2000s&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was amazing&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s had never really hit me how many people love or identified with the show&comma; it never really has&period; I just knew I was going to work every day to make some folks laugh&comma; I never got used to it and I was always nervous and taken aback by the job&period; However&comma; the cool thing was we were the same age as our characters&comma; I was a year older&comma; so life was really parallel&period; So&comma; a lot of things that we might have missed out on in life&comma; we got to live out on the show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2&colon; <strong>Before starring in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One on One” you also starred in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;How Stella Got Her Groove Back” with Angela Bassett&comma; Whoopi Goldberg&comma; and Taye Diggs&period; <&sol;strong><strong>How was it working with those legends at a young age&quest; Were there any important lessons that learned from them that you carried with you throughout your career&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was rad&semi; we were a family of sorts&period; Some relationships&comma; I hold hella near to my heart&period; Like the character that played &&num;8220&semi;Ginger&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Khanya and I are still friends&comma; we lived across the street from each other for a long time and our kids went to the same school&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I think some lessons are&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&num;1&colon; Know and be confident in who you are&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&num;2&colon; Go after exactly what you want&comma; know your worth and maximize that space to the fullest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&num;3&colon; Play the game and work the room&comma; which is the hardest lesson that I have had to learn&period; I like my privacy&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m fairly introverted and I’m not good with a ton of attention&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>3&colon; <strong>We see that you’ve had a career change within the past few years&period; Now you and your mom own a restaurant together&comma; can you tell us when did you develop an interest in the culinary arts&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I was dabbling in cooking semi-professionally&period; I had been married for a bit&comma; just had my eldest daughter and I was legit ready to not go back to acting&period; All I knew is I wanted to do something that I love and passionate about&period; So&comma; I made the decision to go to culinary school and started a few weeks later&period; It was the best decision that I have ever made career-wise&comma; it was hard and worth it&excl; Then&comma; I was so blessed to be apart of the LaCocinaSF&period;org and it is an amazing incubator that helped me build a fail-safe business that I could bring my mum for the journey with&period; I love food and people&comma; I love the gift of hospitality and community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>4&colon; <strong>You’re also a mom of two adorable little girls&period; How has motherhood enhanced your creativity&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Haha&excl; The push me&comma; they are so invested in everything&period; They care about the recipes&comma; ingredients&comma; and presentation&period; The really want a family owned restaurant that they have a voice in&period; They make me very intentional about pursuing happiness and our family living their dreams&period; They challenge me and have this wonder for life that inspires me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5&colon; <strong>Do you ever see yourself getting back into acting&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I have no idea&semi; I think it would be beautiful to marry my two careers&comma; of cooking and acting&period; Who knows&comma; I am open to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>6&colon; 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