Joy Bryant Gets Sultry On The Cover Of ROLLING OUT, Dishes On BEST Valentine’s Day Ever…And Sexing Michael Ealy (In "About Last Night")

She’s rarely given the spotlight we think she deserves…at least sometimes.  But now we finally get to learn more about the fabulous Joy Bryant.  The actress who went from a modeling career to playing 50 Cent’s love interest to being in an interracial relationship on the mainstream NBC show "Parenthood" (one of our faves!), Joy’s definitely had a good career projection of her own.

Find out more about the subtly sexy YBF chick inside…

We kinda want to hate her.  She had that hot sex scene with 50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Trying, has a steady job on network television on "Parenthood", rarely wears makeup or gets glammed up for red carpets (and still looks cute), and now she gets to be swept off her feet in About Last Night by Michael Ealy.

But it hasn’t always been hot men and roses for her.  She just told her fans today about her favorite V-Day ever saying:

The best Valentines Day I’ve ever had was with my homegirl @amoycoutureny about 13 years ago in NYC.After having fights with our boyfriends earlier in the day and crying about it on the phone together, we decided that we weren’t gonna let them ruin our Valentines Day. We would be each other’s valentine. So we got dressed real fly and sexy and went out for dinner at a bomb ass restaurant. We clinked our champagne glasses and toasted to us, friends. After dinner we teetered in our Manolos to the nearest hot spot and danced the night away. Love is love

Sweet!  And the newest Rolling Out cover girl is dishing on everything from what it’s like to get intimate with Mr. Ealy to why she dropped out of Yale.

On deciding to do About Last Night

“When I found out they were doing a contemporary funny remake [of the film], it was a no-brainer for me,” Bryant says. “Equally important was being able to work with Kevin [Hart] and Mike and Regina [Hall]. We’ve all known each other for a while, but I’ve never worked with them before. They’d all worked together and Mike and I have mutual friends and Regina and I always saw each other out socially, so to have the opportunity to go to work and play with them every day was something that I was really, really excited about.”

On letting loose during sex scenes

“I think it’s pretty obvious when [sex scenes and nudity] are gratuitous,” she explains. “But if it makes sense — people do have sex — I don’t have a problem with that, as long as it’s not gratuitous. If it’s not necessary, then we don’t need to do it. But I have a healthy comfort level in terms of my body in regards to shooting those kinds of scenes. Not that I think I’m all that! [laughs] But I’m cool with it if it serves the purpose of the piece.

On getting to live out sex scenes with Michael Ealy

“I knew going in there was a lot of sex in the original movie. I already knew that!” she continues. But she says that she and Ealy found a very easy comfort with each other very quickly. “We didn’t know each other very well, but we have mutual friends that we’re both really close to, and we met before — so that kind of made us ‘homies by proxy.’ So that was natural. The chemistry was already there and we came in with trust and feeling comfortable with each other. We didn’t have to act that. It was just there. You want to be comfortable with the person you’re intimate with, right? Well, it’s the same thing on set. It wasn’t a big trip for me. I think it all made sense. All those love scenes! [laughs]”

On the culture shock of growing up in South Bronx, then going to Yale

“The [worlds] were total opposites of each other,” she recalls. “I went from there and went to Yale [later], but when I went to Yale, it wasn’t as much of a culture shock as it was when I was 13 years old going from 167th and College Avenue up to Shrewsbury, Connecticut.

“And I think that for me, while going from the South Bronx to a predominantly white, rich school and area was a huge trip; but the thing that struck me most was not so much the racial differences — it was the economic differences. It’s a class thing a lot of times. Racism comes into play but when I was there, it was like ‘Oh, I’m that poor?’ ” she says, chuckling. “My 13-year-old roommate had a credit card. I didn’t know adults who had credit cards! Going between the two [environments], you’ve got one foot in one world and one foot in the other. There were times where I felt like I stuck out like a sore thumb in both worlds. When you’re in that environment on scholarship and don’t do well, you don’t get asked back. Whereas, someone else coming from means who doesn’t do well can just go to the next best thing. There was a lot of pressure at a young age to not get your a– sent back home.”

On dropping out of Yale for her career

“When I dropped out of Yale and started modeling, having had exposure to a world outside of my neighborhood was great,” she says. “I always loved getting out into the world. When I was younger, I loved going into Manhattan and down to Greenwich Village. I thought it was so cool, it was the hip place to me, like ‘s–t is happening down there!’ I got to expand my horizons.”

Check out the rest of her interview over at Rolling Out.  About Last Night is in theaters today!

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