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Tisha Campbell has said no to a Martin reboot for now, but she does have some thoughts on where Gina would be today. ET spoke to the actress at the premiere of her new Netflix series, Uncoupled, Tuesday night, where she shared her theory on her beloved character's whereabouts.

"Oh, we would probably still be together, married, and with grandchildren, I think!" Campbell said of where she thinks Gina and Martin Lawrence's titular character of Martin would be 25 year later.

Uncoupled sees Neil Patrick Harris as Michael, whose life is upended after his husband of 17 years suddenly leaves him and is forced to navigate New York City as a newly single gay man in his mid-forties. Campbell, who stars as Michael’s business partner, Suzanne, commented on her role and the importance of seeing all kinds of people and all kinds of relationships represented on television.

"It was amazing, it was amazing and relatable because, we're all human beings going through human experiences, and I understood it 'cause I too have been uncoupled from a long-termed relationship, so representation matters," Campbell said of the Darren Star-created project, which puts queer characters at the forefront.

She continued, "I remember myself being a little girl, and not seeing somebody that looked like me on television, and I remember myself being the only person who looked like me on television at one at one point in my career, and so, it's so important to see Neil Patrick Harris at the helm, and all of these beautiful queer men really playing queer men, you know what I mean?"

Campbell hopes the show has an impact that queer-led dramas like Pose has had on its viewers and on the culture.

"It's just an important thing, and I'm hoping that we have at least the impact -- at least this much impact that Pose had where you bring humanity to the forefront of this story," Campbell added. "And even though it's still a story of heart break, it's still relatable story about a universal subject, but it's also funny."

When asked about the show getting a second season, Campbell says she sees "excited" to see where Uncoupled could go.

"It's so great, because they really peeled this away an onion, like, everybody has a storyline, there's so many cliff hangers. Every single time you watch it, there's a cliff hanger, but at the end, there's a lot of cliff hangers," she teased. "So, you're gonna see us go through so much, and it's so rich, so I'm just excited about where we could go in a second season."

As for her own dating life, the recently uncoupled actress, who split from her husband of 24 years, Duane Martin, in 2020, Campbell said she's still getting used to the scene,

"Oh my God, what do you mean? This is my life, like there was no real social media before when I was single prior to being married. And there's a whole social scene, there's a whole algorithm that you have to adhere to -- that's the new dating," Campbell said when asked about dating in 2022. "I'm getting people sliding into my DMs and I'm seeing pictures I really don't want to see, you understand what I'm saying, like, 'Um, no thank you,' but my millennial friends are like, 'Honey, that is required dating these days,' so, it's just a whole different navigation that I'm still learning about."

See how Campbell, and the rest of the star-studded cast handle dating, uncoupling and more when Uncoupled hits Netflix July 29.

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She's gone on to star in other sitcoms, but she'll always be remembered for one character most of all: Gina Waters-Payne. For five seasons, Tisha Campbell played Gina on Martin opposite comedian Martin Lawrence. In fact, the way Martin said his girlfriend's name on the show has people—including her own child—repeating it to Campell today.

"My son does it every single day of my life: 'Gina,'" Campbell told Entertainment Tonight. "But I don't mind when people call me that because it means that they really… it means something to them. I never ever thought that we would be iconic."

This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the premiere of Martin, and a cast reunion is on the way. Read on to find out what else Campbell has going on.

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Campbell was already established as an actor before Martin. She was in the movie adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors and played Sidney in the House Party movies.

After Martin went off the air, Campbell went on to star on another popular sitcom, My Wife and Kids, which aired from 2001 to 2005. Some of her more recent projects include being a series regular on Dr. Ken and having recurring roles on Empire, The Bold and the Beautiful, Last Man Standing, and Outmatched. She's also done voiceover acting recently on a few animated series, including  Harley Quinn and Inside Job.

Campbell is very close friends with her Martin co-star Tichina Arnold, who played Pam. The two first met when they were 12-year-old actors and, in 1986, they appeared in Little Shop of Horrors together. They teamed up again when Campbell appeared on episodes of Everybody Hates Chris, on which Arnold starred, and they've co-hosted the Soul Train Music Awards together for the past four years.

"She never gives up on a friendship," Campbell said on The Tamron Hall Show in 2021. "She has always, always been there for me, good times or bad times. And she tells the truth."

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Campbell has two children, 20-year-old Xen and 12-year-old Ezekiel, with her ex-husband Duane Martin to whom she was married for over 20 years. In a 2020 interview with Entertainment Tonight, she said that she "nothing in the bank" when she split from her husband.

"I had maybe $7 to my name and I was scared," she said. "It was like I was starting all over … Starting over is not always the easiest thing, but it's the necessary thing and it's a beautiful devastation." She was asked if she was ready to date again, and she responded, "Hell no! I'm the happiest I've ever been and I don't want a relationship."

The Martin cast reunited for a special that will air on BET+ this summer. It marks the sitcom's big anniversary, as it initially premiered in August 1992. Campbell has shared behind-the-scenes videos from the reunion filming on her Instagram. She wrote in one caption, "Y'all ready?! We ARE!!!" and in another, "When I say y'all gonna be excited!!!!!!!!!"ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb

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