Raven-Symoné’s stint on “The View” was a “learning experience.”
The actor co-hosted the daytime show from 2015 to 2016, and although she has no desire to star in another TV talk show, Symoné learned a lot from the experience.
“That was a learning experience,” she told “Entertainment Tonight.”
“I learned a lot on that show; I learned a lot about what I should say yes to and what I shouldn’t say yes to,” she continued. “I learned how to bottle my emotions real quick for cameras as best as I can — within certain reason — and I learned that the hair and makeup on that show was amazing.
“I learned that I have interesting views — pun intended — and I also learned that some conversations are couch conversations for home and not for live television. I learned that television is television. And sometimes they have to do things to make good television. And I don’t know if everybody knows that. I’ll keep it like that,” she said.
Despite this, Symoné doesn’t have any regrets about co-hosting the show.
“You have to try out everything to find out who you are,” the former child star — who played Olivia Kendall on ‘The Cosby Show” — said.
“I think it’s very important that you do that for yourself because going into it while you’re growing up, your parents create this bubble for you of how they want you to be, your friends mold you, and then you have that moment where you’re like, ‘But what do I want?'” Symoné said.
“The only way you can figure that out is to try different things,” she concluded. “That’s what I do in this industry; I try as many things as I can [and] if they succeed, let’s keep going. If they don’t, thank you much, moving on.”
