Spotlight On…Timon Kyle Durrett

(Davis West, QUEEN SUGAR)

If you haven’t seen QUEEN SUGAR yet, you may want to make OWN’s critically acclaimed sudser your next binge watch. The series, which follows the trials and tribulations of three Louisiana siblings who come together to save their family’s ailing sugar cane farm, recently kicked off its second season to record-high ratings. Timon Durrett plays Davis West, a philandering pro basketball star who ruined his marriage and is trying to salvage a relationship with his teenage son. Durrett says he loves that his alter ego is so flawed. “I welcome a conflict on and off camera,” he chuckles. “On camera, I like playing characters who tug at the emotions of the people who are watching it. Off camera, I sometimes get people who can’t separate the actor from the character and they’ll say, ‘Ooh, I couldn’t stand you in that scene! How could you do that?’ That lets me know I’ve done my job. I love playing characters that leave people with a memory of it, whether it be happiness or sorrow, something that really brings them into the world of the character — that’s why I love Davis.”