In the 2007 movie "I Think I Love My Wife," Gina Torres played Brenda, the wife of Chris Rock’s character. The film follows Richard Cooper, a married investment banker who becomes tempted by an old acquaintance while struggling to reconnect with Brenda and his family life.
Torres’s character is portrayed as a successful, career-focused woman and mother. Chris Rock directed and co-wrote the film, which he made with Louis C.K. The screenplay adapts ideas from Éric Rohmer’s 1972 French film Love in the Afternoon, relocating the story to contemporary New York and reshaping it as an American romantic comedy.
The cast also includes Kerry Washington as Nikki, the woman who disrupts Richard’s routine, and Steve Buscemi as Richard’s friend and colleague. Viewers sometimes confuse Brenda with Nikki because both women are central to the romantic conflict, but Brenda is Richard’s wife. Gina Torres later became especially familiar to television audiences through roles in Suits and Firefly.