Living Single's Erika Alexander Is Open to a Revival: 'I Haven't Yet Aged Out of That Face' (Exclusive)

“I really identify with that show,” Alexander says of the 1990s Fox comedy about a group of young friends living in New York.

Erika Alexander may be open to a return visit Living single more than three decades after it first premiered, “We’ll see,” the 54-year-old tells PEOPLE.

The fan-favorite sitcom ran on Fox from 1993 to 1998 and focused on the lives of a group of young black friends in New York City.

Alexander played the hasty public defender Maxine. Its cast included Queen Latifah (who wrote and sang the theme song) as magazine publisher Khadijah, Kim Coles as Khadijah’s cousin and aspiring actress Synclaire, Kim Fields as fashion buyer Regina; TC Carson as savvy financier Kyle and John Henton as builder Obie.

Although Alexander no longer sees her colleagues every day at work, they keep in touch through “a big group message,” she says. “It has changed. We didn’t have it for years, and then suddenly someone made it.”

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Erika Alexander, Queen Latifah, Kim Fields and Kim Coles in ‘Living Single’.

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One of the topics of conversation among the former costars: to revive the show somehow.

“There was a bit of a conversation, for sure,” says Alexander, who was previously hesitant to join, saying she was trying to be “pragmatic.”

“I am very identified with that series. Especially the moment I put on those braids,” she explains. “I haven’t grown old from that face yet. I didn’t know if I wanted to do it, because I thought I wouldn’t be able to get over it. I’m a person who would love to do that. I’m not trying to push it away. I had to look at my career and say that if it had been more successful in different areas than I would have accepted it more.”

“And yet I’ve outgrown even that [thinking] a little, so we’ll see,” she continues. “I always thought it would be great animated. Everyone has such unique voices.”

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Latifah told Andy Cohen in 2017 Watch what’s happening live yes it is Living single a reboot was in the works.

“It’s not there yet, but we hope we can make it happen,” she said at the time.

She also noticed similarities with Friendswhich premiered on NBC a year later Living singledebut.

“We knew we were doing it before,” she said. “It was one of those things where there was a guy named Warren Littlefield, who used to run NBC, and they asked him, ‘When all the new shows came out, if there was any show you could have, what would it be?’ And he said Living single … And then he created Friends.”

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In 2022, Fields also opined on rebooting the series.

“I think you have to be very careful with reboots because if you don’t do it right, you’re messing with characters that people love,” she said during an appearance on Today.

In the years that followed Living single went off the air, Alexander appeared in several other series and films, including the Prime Video noir drama Boschsitcom Last Man Standing and an Oscar-winning horror film get out.

He is currently starring in a new satire directed by Cord Jefferson American fiction as Coraline, a lawyer who becomes romantically involved with writer Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright). Unbeknownst to his new girlfriend, Ellison wrote a novel under a pseudonym that became a huge success. The book becomes a focal point in their relationship.

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in ‘American Fiction’.

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Alexander is also producing a documentary about the late actress Diahann Carroll, Between Starshine and Clay: The Hidden Diary of Diahann Carroll.

“It’s all hands on deck because believe it or not, it’s very difficult to do something like this. It’s hard to finance it. It’s just hard and it will be hard. So we face those kinds of obstacles,” says Alexander, who is producing the film with Venus and Serena Williams and Carroll’s daughter, Suzanne Kay, among others. “I’m excited about it though.”

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