Boris Kodjoe Recalls Telling Engaged Co-Star Nicole Ari Parker She’d Be His Wife

Overview

• Kodjoe said in a recent interview on The Kenny Burns Show that he told Parker she would be his wife even though she was engaged.
• He recalled delivering the message at the end of Soul Food’s first season by stopping at her trailer, stating his prediction, and walking away.
• The pair met at the first table read of the Showtime drama Soul Food, where audience response to their on-screen chemistry expanded a planned three-episode arc into five seasons.
• Kodjoe credited Parker with early guidance in his first TV role, saying she taught him how to break down scripts and handle American colloquial speech.
• After her prior engagement ended, they married in 2005 in Gundelfingen, Germany, built a family with two children, started a foundation after their daughter was born with spina bifida, and People identified her then-fiancé as Joseph Falasca.