Megan Good is excellent in the role of "Reasonable Doubt," learning from Jonathan Majors' husband and stepping out of the beautiful box

She speaks well about leading the industry on her own and alongside Majors, and reveals the character she plays in Ramla Mohammed Hunter's legal drama.

Spanning three seasons, the Hulu drama Reasonable Doubt, created by Scandal and Little Fires Everywhere alum Raamla Mohamed Hunter, is a legal thriller filled with dirty personal affairs and unexpected twists that revolves around super lawyer Jax Stewart, played by Emayatzy Corinealdi. The recently released fourth season is no different.

Last season literally ended when a disgruntled Monica (Brandi Evans), who had sexually assaulted a minor, showed up at Jax's new law office with a gun. The first three episodes deal with the aftermath of Jax's shooting and what it means for his fledgling company. Despite their tumultuous relationship, Jax's husband Lois (McKinley Freeman) allows Jax's trusted investigator Daniel (Tim Joe) to call Corey Cash for help in bringing back Maurice Chestnut, as played by Joseph Sikora as Bill, a white lawyer who dates black women but helped get Jax kicked out of the firm.

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New additions include singer Tank as Eric Cropper and Jax's main client, Beauty in Black star Taylor Polidor Williams as Eric's wife Brooke, La La Anthony as Eric's first wife Melina, and Megan Goode as Regina Harris.

Goode's role is quieter than what fans see him as. An entire generation has grown up with Goode, from his roles as a child actor in Friday, Yves Bayou and Cousin Skeeter, to adult roles in franchises like Think Man, Announcer 2: The Legend Continues, the TV series Minority Report and both Shazam movies. In Reasonable Doubt, Goode, who starred in Prime Video's Harlem, has a supporting role. Unusual for TV lawyers, viewers don't get to know his character as a mole in the courtroom. Instead, his personal life gets more and more involved very quickly.

"I thought she was great in Harlem, and her whole career was amazing. But when I watched Harlem I felt like I saw a lighter, different side of her, and I thought, OK, she really has a range that a lot of people haven't seen. And she's killing the show," Muhammad Hunter told The Hollywood Reporter during a visit to Good's series. It's largely filmed "I'm just thankful he wanted to do it."

Goode was a constant presence alongside her husband, Jonathan Majors, during his highly publicized 2023 trial in New York, where he was ultimately convicted of molesting his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabari. Good and Majors later married last year. "If you know someone and you believe in someone, it's not conditional," she has previously said of standing by her side amid legal troubles and career fallout.

Below, Goode talks to THR about her role on Reasonable Doubt, what she's learned about acting from her husband, and the moves she made to break out of the beauty box that just happened to get her here.

Can you talk about your role in Reasonable Doubt and how that came about for you?

I play Regina Harris, the new DA. It came about because we were talking about how I would love to come on the show and do something with Ramla and Imamtazi. The next thing you know, I'm in and I'm like, "The only other thing I could have been other than an actor was a lawyer." So it's fun for me, because I've never had a chance to play something like this. It's great to be in a place in my life where I can expand as an actor and be seen in different ways and experience different things and bring different things to it.

There are people you already know in this field.

tone From Joseph [Sikora], who I made The Disturber with, to McKinley [Freeman], who was in the first film I directed [If Not Now, When? ] to Devon Nixon [who plays Tiger Cropper, I've known him since we were 14 or 15. I have known Tank since I was 19 years old. Taylor [Polydor Williams] I did the black dress divorce with [Tyler Perry]. I could go on and on. It's really good to be around so many beautiful and spirited people.

What is your personality type? What is his background?

Regina has a lot of complicated things going on at home. Her mother is really sick and she is the primary caregiver for her mother. She's trying to balance work and the career she wants and where she wants to go in that space to take care of her mother without any help. She has no husband, her sister is strongly against helping her mother. Their mother abandoned them when they were both children, and so her sister still feels that way.

Regina tries to get the love she didn't receive as a child, to somehow fix it or find meaning for her. And she struggles with that because her mother is still the same person she was when she left them. I also think Regina is trying to figure out what she wants in life. It's not just about his job or his mother. It's not just whether he wants to be in a relationship or not. What does he really want for his life? What makes him feel fulfilled and whole and healed?

In the beginning, he is Jax's lawyer in a case against Mrs. Wilson, played by Brandi Evans, the character who shot him at the end of last season. This goes from her representation of Jax to her opposition to Jax. It is very fast

I'm not trying to get into your business, but how has having an actor for a wife [Jonathan Majors] helped you in your career?

amazing It's so interesting because I always talk about how we came into this completely differently. I got into this as a child actor when I was about 4 years old. It was entertainment, for entertainment's sake. When I was 13, 14, I was working constantly. And by the grace of God, I have not stopped trying since then. I may not have worked a single year in my entire career. When I think about it, it's amazing. I have never had another job in my life.

Jonathan came in as someone who pursued it as a teenager, who went to the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts and went on to Yale. He played every single August Wilson game and played the title characters. Our approaches are different, so I'm learning from someone I really respect, someone I used to be a fan of as a talent. Before we met, I thought he was different. He is a generational talent.

I looked him up after watching The Last Black Man in San Francisco, because how do you play two different characters in a two-character play?

i did But it was a bit hard for me to watch because it's so intense.

This is probably the movie I've seen the most right now, just because it doesn't watch itself. I should have watched it before it came out. And after watching it, I thought, wait, I have to watch it again. But I watched it again. And of course in film festivals and then various shows. I've probably seen the movie nine or 10 times at this point. And I was just saying, there's no way he's that good. He is really good.

So to have him around as a coach when I'm working is really a gift because he gives 110 percent and he cares and he loves it. And while I love it and I live and breathe it, it's a completely different approach than when you're a child actor, and you've kind of grown up against it and vetoed it and pursued it and nurtured it. And so coming together, it's really fun because there's such a mutual respect. Like he watched me grow up

thank you So it's fun. It's a fun family to have these conversations [in] and have a lot to offer each other. I think even in navigating the industry, he is very pure and not exposed to many things. And while I've decided to keep my purity, there's also a fair amount of wisdom that comes from seeing things up close and just knowing how to recognize certain things and being like, yeah, that's it, and then figuring out how to channel those things and always be true to yourself and never compromise. So when we put our roles together, it's really beautiful because we're both kids and adults covering each other and having similar understandings and completely different understandings that actually both kind of connect and add so much to each other's lives. It is really beautiful

And it shows that he is training me for a role. I can feel the difference and I have access to things that have always been there, but I may not know how to access them or I didn't know they were there at all. So it kind of boosted my excitement for what's coming out of me as an actor. But like I said before, I'm now discovering things that have come up in my 40s that are completely different than when I was in my 30s. There are things that will come out when I become a mother, there are things that will come out when I turn 50, and some of them I'm excited for all of them.

When did you decide to break out of the pretty girl box?

I tried to break up with him for a long time. And I fought for years [to get rid of it]. That's why I cut my hair in the first place. I thought, OK, if I keep having long hair, people will think that. You see child actors trying to pass as a child actor, and often people go, no, you're still this person or this character. They keep calling you by that character's name. And especially if you are a young woman, they never want to believe that you can grow up.

[I was] 19 when I realized, I still look 16, but I'm getting ready to turn 20, and I want to make this transition. The only way I knew [how to do it] at the time was to let them know that I was a woman, a young woman, and not a little girl anymore.

Then when I was 25, 26, it was like, they know I'm a woman. Now I want to do something different. [I] had a lot of objections to it. When you're auditioning for certain things [and the conversation takes place], I don't think he's the right fit for it. I say, why? [And it's] like, I don't know. He's just… [and] I'm like, what exactly is he? what am i just You just have a preconceived notion of me based on my looks or the characters I've played, that you think I'm this and that's all I have to offer.

At first I took it as a challenge, but then it got frustrating over time. God was really cultivating [a spirit] in me to not let myself get discouraged and be proud of who I am and who I'm growing into, and not let anyone diminish that for me or my process. And also not rushing the process knowing that everything will happen in God's time [and that] I just have to do my part. But obviously, it was quite a trip.

I hadn't done television for probably a decade when I decided to do a show for NBC called Deception. I was playing a cop and no one had ever seen me do that. The last thing I did before that was Californication where I played RZA's love interest. But I had to do nothing with sex appeal, nothing with tight clothes, so that's why I chose [deception] at that time. From there, it was really looking for things that were outside of that box, and crazy enough, a lot of the stuff I did wasn't anything we'd all seen, like Rian Johnson's first movie Brick with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. A lot of people didn't know I made that movie until 15 years later. Those were the things that kind of kept me going because I was trying to get out of it. So, it was a trip, but not one I regret and not one I complain about.

The first three episodes of Reasonable Doubt premiered on Hulu in October. 6, with other episodes airing weekly.

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