FIST FIGHT: 5 Reasons We Love Kym Whitley

Style Magazine Newswire | 1/26/2017, 4:27 p.m.

Kym Whitley and Son

We can all pretty much agree that actress and comedian Kym Whitley is one of the funniest women in Hollywood. She’s starred in a number of films and TV shows including Deliver Us from Eva, College Road Trip, Young and Hungry and will be in the upcoming movie FIST FIGHT. Kym is funny, sassy, keeps it real and we absolutely love her for it. A true #WCW!

5. She’s a woman of many talents.

Kym Whitley is an actress, producer, director and stand-up comedienne. She always knew her dream was to be an actress and graduated from Fisk University with a B.A in Theatre and Art. After graduating, she moved to LA to pursue her dream as an actress and also worked as a teacher in Compton. She has starred in several films and TV shows such as Next Friday, The Parkers, and Lets Stay Together to name a few. Kym started her own production company, Kwick Whit Productions, and has produced several projects such as: Love Chronicles, Cruising for Love with Kym Whitley, and the feature length film, 35 and Ticking. Kym also created and co-hosted her own evening talk show on BET entitled Oh Drama!. What can’t she do?!

4. She’s one heck of a momma!

Kym adopted her son Joshua in 2011, after Joshua’s mom, a girl she mentored gave birth and named her the guardian. Although unexpected, she followed through with the adoption. He is her only child and it has been a learning experience for Kym. She created the “Don’t Feed Me” shirt for her son Joshua after discovering he was allergic to many different things. She wanted to make sure he would be safe even if she wasn’t there. She made them available for purchase to help out other parents of children with food allergies. What a super momma!

3. She always keeps it real.

Kym is not one to hold back and it seems no subject is off limits. During interviews, she’s admitted to sneaking into the Green Bay Packer locker room for a date and how she has spanks for days! You can’t help but laugh at her honesty.

2. She is passionate about helping and giving to others.

Kym Whitley loves to donate her time to charities and help in causes she believes in. She donates her time to help women shelters, HBCUs, victim’s rights, and any causes to do with children. Kym even started her own non-profit called Comics 4 Kids, whose mission is to improve literacy and foster imagination through comic books.

1. She’s absolutely hilarious!

She’s a comedian who has headlined The Comedy Union’s Ladies’ Night Live in Los Angeles and He Said, She Said with David A. Arnold. Who could forget her as Aunt Suga in Next Friday where she hilariously hit on Ice Cube’s character. She currently stars on Freeform’s Young and Hungry as Yolanda, the hilarious and lovable housekeeper. You can also catch her in FIST FIGHT, where she plays a 911 operator, in theatres everywhere on February 17th.

See FIST FIGHT in theaters on February 17, 2016

Synopsis: On the last day of the year, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. But things go from bad to worse when he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down after school. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and ends up becoming the very thing this school, and Campbell, needed.

“Fist Fight” also stars Tracy Morgan (“30 Rock”), Jillian Bell (“22 Jump Street”), Dean Norris (“Breaking Bad”), Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Dennis Haysbert (“The Unit”), JoAnna Garcia Swisher (“The Astronaut Wives Club”).

Richie Keen directs from a screenplay by Van Robichaux & Evan Susser (Funny or Die’s “What’s Going On? With Mike Mitchell”), story by Van Robichaux & Evan Susser and Max Greenfield. “Fist Fight” is produced by Shawn Levy, Max Greenfield, John Rickard, and Dan Cohen. Serving as executive producers are Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Samuel J. Brown, Dave Neustadter, Charlie Day, Ice Cube, Marty P. Ewing, Billy Rosenberg, and Bruce Berman.

Keen’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Eric Edwards (“Knocked Up”), production designer Chris Cornwell (“Ride Along,” “The Wedding Ringer”), editor Matthew Freund (Comedy Central’s “The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail”) and costume designer Denise Wingate (“Wedding Crashers”). The music is by Dominic Lewis (Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle”).

New Line Cinema presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a 21 Laps/Wrigley Pictures production: “Fist Fight.” The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.