Eva Marcille is pleased with how far she has come after successful America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin.
Greater than 20 years after being topped the winner on cycle 3 of Tyra Banks’ actuality present, Marcille, 41, (who was beforehand referred to as Eva Pigford) defined her profession evolution after incomes the title of Prime Mannequin.
“I stroll right into a room, and I’m referred to as Eva — not the mannequin lady, not the this and never the that, and never as a result of it wasn’t exhausting. It was very troublesome to pay my dues,” Marcille completely shared with Us Weekly whereas supporting her new Lifetime film, Pushed Off a Airplane and Survived. “However (Tyra) gave me the chance to pay my dues on the again finish, and a variety of entertainers need to pay it on the entrance finish, after which they’re famed. Lots of people from Prime Mannequin didn’t understand turning into famed doesn’t imply that you just now have a profession.”
From the second Marcille was topped the winner, she made it her mission to “battle for that profession.”
Eva Marcille was some of the notable America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin contestants lacking from Netflix’s 2026 documentary sequence Actuality Examine. Marcille’s fiery persona and simple charisma earned her the nickname “Eva the Diva” in the course of the third cycle of ANTM, which she gained in July 2004. After successful a Ford modeling contract on the truth (…)
“That’s what I really feel like was lacking on Prime Mannequin as a result of I bought the scarlet letter. I modified my title to Marcille in order that once I walked into an audition, I wasn’t prejudged,” she defined to Us. “However I’m prejudged in the whole lot I do, and so I’m not going to hold my hat on Tyra and make it as if she is the explanation why the business has been troublesome.”
Marcille added, “The business is troublesome as a result of it’s troublesome — interval. Tyra did us — did me — a service, and helped me quite a bit. And I’m very appreciative of her.”
Like many earlier America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin members, Marcille has watched Actuality Examine: Inside America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin.
Fashions, judges and Banks herself agreed to look again on the actuality present’s sophisticated legacy in an eye-opening Netflix documentary sequence.
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Us WeeklyWhereas some contestants are fast to criticize Banks, 52, Marcille has empathy for the TV persona who grew to become the primary Black girl to seem on the covers of GQ, Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Concern and the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
“I don’t know what the world needs from Tyra,” Marcille shared. “I do know I heard her say ‘sorry’ a number of instances. I’m not one to let you know how real I believed it was or was not. I undoubtedly heard it, however I believe it’s actually exhausting when your again is up in opposition to the wall and the whole enterprise is now pointing a finger at you and never for something you probably did good, however for less than your flaws. … I really feel for Tyra. I really do, as a result of that is the day and age the place we gaslight and we blackball and we cancel. It’s a cancel tradition, and I don’t suppose she deserves that.”
Modeling apart, Marcille is worked up for followers to see her subsequent film function on Lifetime.
Former America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin Eva Marcille is weighing in after the truth sequence was explored in a brand new bombshell Netflix documentary. “I watched it and after I watched it, I used to be gobsmacked,” Marcille, 41, mentioned in the course of the Thursday, February 19, episode of CBS Mornings. “I used to be in awe … My mouth was extensive open. (…)
In Pushed Off a Airplane and Surviveda skydiving journey turns right into a nightmare when Jaynie (performed by Marcille) plummets 4,000 ft from the sky and someway survives in opposition to all odds.
“Lifetime does a ravishing job at discovering tales which are ripped from the headlines, and as an actor, artwork depicts life,” Marcille shared. “What yummier story to inform than a real-life story and to be pushed from a airplane?”
Pushed Off a Airplane and Survived premieres on Lifetime Saturday, February 28, at 8 p.m. ET.