BET Networks and Tyler Perry Studios announced today the second wave of talent joining the production of the new original drama “The Oval.” The 25-episodes original series “The Oval” will premiere this fall on BET. Javon Johnson, Ptosha Storey, Vaughn Hebron, Teesha Renee, Lodric Collins, Ciera Payton, Taja V. Simpson, Walter Fauntleroy, Brad Benedict, Travis Cure and Matthew Law join previously announced cast Ed Quinn, Kron Moore, Paige Hurd and Daniel Croix Henderson. “THE OVAL” tells the story of a family placed in the White House by people of power while also highlighting the personal side and everyday lives of the staff who run the inner workings of the nation’s most iconic residence.
Principal photography is underway at Tyler Perry Studios.
Second wave announcement of series regulars include:
Javon Johnson will play RICHARD HALLSEN
Richard is the esteemed White House butler who has served several administrations at the White House.
Ptosha Storey will play NANCY HALLSEN
Nancy is the loving wife to Richard Hallsen, the esteemed White House butler.
Vaughn Hebron will play BARRY HALLSEN
Barry is the son to the esteemed White House butler. He is a young dad to his 4-year old daughter Callie.
Teesha Renee will play SHARON
Sharon is the girlfriend to Barry Hallsen. She works at a local pharmacy.
LODRIC COLLINSwill play DONALD WINTHROP
Donald is the Chief of Staff at The White House for Hunter Franklin, the newly elected President of the United States. He is smart, demanding and manipulative.
Ciera Paytonwill play Lilly WINTHROP
Lilly is a fashion designer who is married to Donald Winthrop, the Chief of Staff for the President.
Taja V. Simpson will play PRISCILLA OWENS
Priscilla is the residence staff supervisor at the White House. She is married to Sam, the President’s secret service agent.
WALTER FANTLEROY will play SAM OWENS
Sam is a loyal secret service agent to the President.
Brad Benedict will play Kyle Flint
Kyle is a secret service agent at the White House. He is an ex-Marine who is direct and unwavering. He takes direction, but seems to be always operating with a different outcome in mind.
Travis Cure will play Bobby
Bobby is handsome and rugged. After meeting Lilly Winthrop on a plane, neither of their lives will ever be the same again.
Matthew Law will pay Kareem Richardson
Kareem owns a local pharmacy in Washington, D.C., along with his father. He is a hard- working young man. He may be in a relationship but his heart longs for Sharon, who also works at the pharmacy and is in a committed relationship with Barry.
The Oval is written, directed and executive produced by Tyler Perry. Michelle Sneed will also serve as Executive Producer of the series for Tyler Perry Studios.
Until production actually starts, it’s being reported that Rick Famuyiwa (of Dope and Confirmation fame) is now the latest name attached to direct the remake of 1974 buddy comedy Uptown Saturday Night for Warner Bros. Pictures with Kevin Hart starring.
Malcolm D. Lee was the last name brought up in 2013.
Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment partner James Lassiter are producing with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris writing the most recent draft of the script. For years, the project was developed as a possible starring vehicle for Smith and Denzel Washington, but busy schedules for both A-listers have forced Smith to serve as a producer on the project, opening the door for Hart to take the lead.
The 1974 original buddy comedy starred Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier as two estranged friends who have their wallets stolen at a nightclub. The next morning, they learn that one of their wallets contained a winning lottery ticket, and together, they set out to find it.
Kevin Hart and John Cheng will also produce through their HartBeat banner.
Famuyiwa, whose credits include The Wood, Dope and Confirmation, recently directed an episode of the highly anticipated Star Wars series The Mandalorian for Disney+.
ABC announced a dynamic upcoming lineup from the network’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, today at the Television Critics Association event.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to Brooklyn, New York, for five original shows starting Monday, Oct. 21. The Emmy Award®-nominated show will tape in front of a live studio audience from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House. During the show’s fourth visit to Brooklyn last year (week of Oct. 15, 2018), ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” posted gains over the prior week among Adults 18-49 (+2%) to deliver back-to-back season highs and had scored its strongest performance in over 4 months – since the week of 6/4/18. This will be the fifth time that Kimmel and his show have broadcast from BAM.
Then this winter, Kimmel will once again team up with television icon Norman Lear and executive producers Brent Miller, Will Ferrell and Justin Theroux to provide the next installment of the groundbreaking “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” with a live holiday special event. A third “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” special will air spring 2020.
ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and “The Jeffersons’” premiered on Wednesday, May 22, with an average audience of 10.4 million viewers and earned a 1.8/9 in Adults 18-49 and reached 22.5 million Total Viewers for its original Wednesday airing and Saturday rebroadcast.
“Live in Front of a Studio Audience” will be produced by Kimmelot, ACT III Productions, Gary Sanchez Productions, D’Arconville and Sony Pictures Television. Norman Lear, Jimmy Kimmel, Brent Miller, Will Ferrell and Justin Theroux will executive produce.
Finally, to round out his robust slate of ABC programming, Kimmel will partner with Emmy® Award-winning producer Mark Burnett to executive produce “Generation Gap,” a new game show coming to ABC. This comedy quiz show groups family members of different generations who must work together to answer questions about each other’s generations. This “fun for the whole family” show features a wide variety of pop-culture trivia and challenges, such as asking an 8-year-old to finish the famous catchphrase, “Go ahead. Make my BLANK!” Additional details surrounding production and airdates, as well as a host, to be announced at a later date.
“Generation Gap” will be produced by MGM Television and Kimmelot. Mark Burnett, Jimmy Kimmel and Barry Poznick will executive produce.
Natascha McElhone (Californication) and Emmy nominee Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo) are set for lead roles opposite Pablo Schreiber in Halo, Showtime’s anticipated series based on the Xbox video game franchise. Rounding out the cast are Shabana Azmi (Fire), Bentley Kalu (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Natasha Culzac (The Witcher) and Kate Kennedy (Catastrophe). The castings were announced Friday during Showtime’s presentation at the TCA summer press tour. Produced by Showtime in partnership with 343 Industries, along with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, the series will begin production later this year in Budapest and is slated to air in the first quarter of 2021.
McElhone will star as two characters — Dr. Catherine Halsey, the brilliant, conflicted and inscrutable creator of the Spartan supersoldiers and Cortana, the most advanced AI in human history, and potentially the key to the survival of the human race.
Woodbine will play Soren-066, a morally complex privateer at the fringes of human civilization whose fate will bring him into conflict with his former military masters and his old friend, the Master Chief.
Azmi will play Admiral Margaret Parangosky, the head of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
The series will also introduce three all-new characters to the Halo universe. British actor Kalu will play Spartan Vannak-134, a cybernetically augmented supersoldier conscripted at childhood who serves as the defacto deputy to the Master Chief. British actress Culzac will star in the role of Spartan Riz-028 – a focused, professional and deadly, cybernetically enhanced killing machine. Kennedy stars as Spartan Kai-125, an all-new courageous, curious and deadly Spartan supersoldier. Yerin Ha was previously announced playing the new character Kwan Ha, a shrewd, audacious 16-year-old from the Outer Colonies who meets Master Chief at a fateful time for them both.
Halo reinvented how people think about video games and has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon, having sold more than 77 million copies worldwide and grossing more than $60 billion in lifetime sales worldwide. In its adaptation for Showtime, Halo will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001, dramatizing an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant.
The series is executive produced by Steven Kane (The Last Ship). Halo is also executive produced by Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television in partnership with 343 Industries, director Otto Bathurst and Toby Leslie for One Big Picture and Kyle Killen and Scott Pennington for Chapter Eleven. CBS Studios International will distribute globally.
Source: Deadline
A new comedy titled SEXTUPLETS from “White Chicks” and “Naked” producers Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez, plus producer Nathan Reimann (“Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo”) and director Michael Tiddes (“A Haunted House,” “Naked”) — tells the story of Alan, an expectant father who grew up believing he was an only child. While searching for his birth mother, Alan comes face-to-face with a brother he never knew existed, Russell, who helps him uncover their secret status as sextuplets (all played by Wayans). Soon they begin a spontaneous road trip to track down their additional siblings, but not before Alan wonders whether exploring his roots was a huge mistake.
The hilarious film, releasing on Netflix on Friday, August 16th.
This is a packed weekend for new specialty rollouts, one of the most crowded of the summer. Neon is opening writer-director Julius Onah’s drama Luce with New York and L.A. runs in its opening frame. The company picked up the title starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer and Kelvin Harrison Jr. out of Sundance. Diane Kruger stars in psychological thriller The Operative by writer-director Yuval Adler. The Vertical Entertainment release is playing 10 theaters around the country starting Friday. IFC Films released Jennifer Kent’s 2014 feature The Babadook and is spearheading her latest, The Nightingale, with a traditional rollout. Photographer and artist Jay Maisel is at the center of the documentary Jay Myself, which is playing an exclusive window at Film Forum in New York via Oscilloscope. Cohen Media Group picked up Tel Aviv on Fire out of its Venice premiere, beginning its U.S. theatrical run in New York, L.A., Chicago and Phoenix.
Also opening in limited release is the Anton Yelchin doc Love Antosha by Garret Price. mTuckman Media is opening the title in New York and L.A. with further expansion around the country throughout August. Other newcomers include Slovenian LGBTQ title Consequences, Cleopatra Entertainment’s Ladyworld, Music Box Films’ Piranhas and 1091’s Them That Follow.
Luce
Director-writer: Julius Onah
Writer: J.C. Lee
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison, Jr.
Distributor: Neon
Neon picked up rights to Julius Onah’s psychological thriller, Luce, out of the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered in the U.S. dramatic competition. Luce is based on a play by J.C. Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Neon had been following the title from the script stage. The company saw Luce in full in 35mm at the Library in Park City.
“We took an interest in the project after reading the script and had been tracking it for a long time,” said Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn. “We met with Julius last year and after seeing footage we thought it would be a great fit for us. Julius ultimately delivered, exceeding our already very high expectations and that doesn’t always happen.”
The film centers on Luce (Kelvin Harrison, Jr), an all-star high school athlete and accomplished debater who is perceived as a poster boy for the new American Dream. Sharing that idealized picture are his parents (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth), who adopted him from a war-torn country a decade earlier. When Luce’s teacher (Octavia Spencer) makes a shocking discovery in his locker, Luce’s stellar reputation is called into question. The challenge is understanding whether he is really at fault or if Ms. Wilson is preying on dangerous stereotypes.
“Julius has developed the kind of psychological thriller you rarely see get made anymore, addressing issues of race, class and identity,” said Quinn. “It’s so of the moment. It’s simultaneously classical and contemporary with a prescient handle on what’s happening today. We’re in this business to be a part of movies like this.”
Neon has been working with “multiple organizations” for word-of-mouth screenings of the feature ahead of its rollout in New York and L.A. this weekend. The company said the feature should attract a “broad, independent specialized audience” from the post-college/mid-20s range up to the 60s.
“Early August is the perfect bridge from summer counterprogramming to awards season,” said Quinn. “BlacKkKlansman fell on a similar date last year.” Added Neon exec Elissa Federoff, “It’s a genre of film that attracts both younger and older audiences.”
In New York, Luce will bow at the Angelika, AMC Lincoln Square and the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn, while it will open at the Landmark and Arclight in L.A. It will continue its rollout through August with additional expansion over Labor Day weekend.
The Operative
Director-writer: Yuval Adler
Writer: Anne Carey, Eitan Mansuri, Yiftach R. Atir (book)
Cast: Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman, Cas Anvar
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
Filmmaker Yuval Adler read the novel, The English Teacher, and acquired rights. After writing an initial draft, he developed the script with Anne Carey and Eitan Mansuri. “The adaption process was tricky,” shared Yuval Adler. “The book is very different from the final script; it was set in different countries and the characters were fundamentally different. But there was something about the structure of the book that I really liked — the way the handler recalls his work with the operative as part of an investigation. So you experience both the handler’s perspective and the operative’s.”
The Operative is a psychological thriller about a young Western woman (Diane Kruger) who is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran, where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler (Martin Freeman) and her subject (Cas Anvar).
“The film is actually a very unusual co-production between Israeli and German film funds, French distributor Le Pacte and American financing from Black Bear Pictures,” Adler said. “Stitching it all together was not, let us say, trivial. … Eitan Mansuri of Spiro Films in Israel worked closely with our German partners Match Factory on the European side and producer Anne Carey on the American side.”
Kruger was the first actor to board the project, joining not long after winning Best Actress in Cannes for In the Fade (2017), while Martin Freeman came on much later in the process, according to Adler. Noted the filmmaker: “I had enough time to rewrite the script with her in mind, and we also made use of the fact that she speaks three languages perfectly. The film is about a character that is ‘from everywhere and nowhere’ and in a sense, Diane the actress is that person.”
Filming took place in Germany, Israel, Bulgaria and Iran. The latter was particularly challenging since the project had Israeli backing and Adler is from Israel. To get around restrictions, the producing team formed what Adler called “a shell company” in Germany, which sent German DP Kolija Brandt to Iran.
“He shot a lot of high-resolution footage of the city plates with some of it while I was on a video call with him from New York, directing him,” explained Adler. “We then shot other footage with the actors to match the plates so we could VFX it all together. There’s a lot of real Tehran in the film, which is great. We tried to have him go a second time after the shoot, but the Iranians denied him entry. Initially, I tried to hide the fact that he did it and told all kinds of cover stories, but then we realized it was no use.”
The Operative debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Vertical Entertainment came on for the U.S. release after the festival. The feature opens day-and-date this weekend. Theatrically it plays in about 10 cities including New York, L.A., Philadelphia and Dallas.
The Nightingale
Director-writer: Jennifer Kent
Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Damon Herriman, Sam Claflin, Michael Sheasby, Baykali Ganambarr
Distributor: IFC Films
IFC Films caught writer-director Jennifer Kent’s drama-thriller The Nightingale at a private screening last fall. The company had released Kent’s 2014 feature The Babadook, taking in just under $1 million domestically in theaters.
“We loved The Nightingale and started a conversation to acquire it post-Toronto,” said IFC Films EVP Acquisitions and Production Arianna Bocco. “We feel like we’re [Kent’s] U.S. home and have an ongoing relationship.”
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, The Nightingale follows Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict who chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who also is marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
“I think people will want to be a part of the conversation the film is saying,” said Bocco. “We’re not afraid of challenging films and embrace that conversation.” Bocco added that along with Kent’s base of fans, the title will tap younger audiences along with the overall “smart, arthouse” crowd.
‘The Nightingale’ Trailer: Revenge Is Sweet – But She Isn’t
Following its U.S. debut at Sundance in January, the title has traveled to other major regional events. IFC Films has also played the film at word-of-mouth screenings in the lead up to its theatrical bow Friday.
The Nightingale will open exclusively at the Arclight in L.A. and IFC Center in New York in a traditional rollout. The title will expand in both cities on August 9, while also opening in Austin, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston. Added Bocco: The exhibition world has been fantastic.”
Jay Myself
Director: Stephen Wilkes
Subject: Jay Maisel
Distributor: Oscilloscope
Producers Henry Jacobson and Emma Tammi became aware of doc Jay Myself through a mutual friend, photographer Kerry Payne. Jacobson has a photography background and had been aware of filmmaker Stephen Wilkes’ work. Bette Wilkes, also a producer — and the filmmaker’s spouse — sent over footage, which sold them on the project.
“Stephen, Bette, and their daughter Jennie — also an EP on the movie — had put together a brilliant teaser, which they sent over and which immediately hooked Emma and me,” said Jacobson. “The footage was beautiful. Jay was this bombastic, larger-than-life character, but it was the intimacy of his and Stephen’s relationship that took it beyond a standard art doc.”
Jay Myself documents renowned photographer and artist Maisel, who, in February 2015 after 48 years, begrudgingly sold his home: the 36,000-square-foot, 100-year old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as “The Bank.” Through the intimate lens of filmmaker and Maisel’s protégé, noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes, the viewer is taken on a journey through Maisel’s life as an artist, mentor and man — a man grappling with time, life, change and the end of an era in New York City.
“Stephen had always teased Jay about moving, never believing Jay would actually move,” said producer Bette Wilkes. “Stephen would always say to Jay, ‘If you ever move, I would want to film the mother of all moves.’ In the fall of 2014, Jay called and said he was in the process of selling the building, and Stephen immediately asked if he could film the move. Jay was overwhelmed but ultimately agreed.”
Bette Wilkes and Stephen Wilkes financed the production, noting that time was “of the essence.” “Once the footage was shot, we created a teaser, and when [Jacobson and Tammi’s] Mind Hive Films came on board we started budgeting the finishing costs. We shared the teaser with a close friend and collector of Stephen’s who was interested in film and when he saw it he decided to finance 50% of the finishing costs. Stephen and I financed the other 50% and here we are.”
Production began in 2015, centering on the move. The title premiered at DocNYC in 2018. Added Bette Wilkes: “Stephen always understood that this was a very sensitive time in Jay’s life, and although it was difficult he respected Jay’s privacy. It wasn’t just a move, after all. It was the end of an era.”
ICM took on sales for the doc, reaching out to Oscilloscope to catch Jay Myself at DocNYC. The feature began an exclusive opening window at Film Forum in New York on Wednesday. Oscilloscope reported sellout prime showings Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.
Tel Aviv on Fire
Director-writer: Sameh Zoabi
Writer: Dan Kleinman
Cast: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton
Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Cohen Media Group saw comedy Tel Aviv on Fire at its Venice premiere in February. The film, which is an Israeli, French, Luxembourg and Belgium co-production, shot over 27 days in early fall of 2017. Filmmaker Sameh Zoabi said that the feature had secured French distribution but then lost it when the company went bankrupt while the film was still in production.
“We were struggling to find a distributor,” he said at the film’s New York premiere last week. “A lot of [companies] saw it, but they said they didn’t know what to do with it because it wasn’t truly ‘art house,’ plus it’s a comedy and they weren’t sure it would translate.”
Zoabi said, however, that Tel Aviv on Fire’s premiere in Venice changed all of that. “It received a standing ovation and the audience laughed, plus we won a Best Actor award. Then the distributors came back to us.”
Said Cohen Media Group head Charles Cohen: “We were instantly won over by its charm. The film is a great fit for our slate as it is an audience-friendly movie that particularly serves the appetite of sophisticated art house moviegoers, our core audience.”
The film centers on Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man who becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise until the soldier and the show’s financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
“This seems to be a strong window for the release of a foreign-language film, given that it is great alternative programming for audiences with an appetite for something other than larger studio summer fare,” noted Cohen. “This is a heartfelt, character-driven comedy that investigates traditionally serious subject matter with levity and wit. We are targeting arthouse audiences through traditional channels alongside a grassroots campaign engaging Jewish and Middle Eastern communities around the country.”
Tel Aviv on Fire bows in three New York theaters along with four locations in L.A. with additional playdates in Chicago and Phoenix. The feature will head to additional runs in top markets around the country.
Source: Deadline
Big Sean has joined the cast of Lena Waithe’s upcoming BET comedy series, Twenties. Waithe revealed in an exclusive interview with Variety that the multi-platinum and Grammy-nominated rapper will co-star in the show.
The single-camera comedy has an eight-episode order at the network. If you remember correctly, Twenties was originally in development at TBS, where it was ordered as a pilot. That pilot did not move forward as a series, and after it didn’t, BET picked it up.
Waithe’s interview confirms that previously announced main cast members — Jonica “JoJo” T. Gibbs, Christina Elmore, Gabrielle Graham, Sophina Brown, who were initially cast when Twenties was at the pilot stage at TBS, have been retained for the BET series. The network previously had no comment when Shadow And Act inquired if the cast would roll over. The series is executive produced by Lena Waithe, Susan Fales-Hill (who will also serve as co-showrunner), Rishi Rajani and Andrew Coles.
The official description reads: Created and written by Waithe when she was in her early 20s the eight-episode half-hour series, follows the adventures of a queer Black girl, Hattie, and her two straight best friends, Marie and Nia, who spend most of their days talking ‘ish’ and chasing their dreams. Twenties is a scripted show about friendship, finding love, and messing everything up along the way.
A passion project for Waithe, Twenties actually dates several years back, during the time when the multi-hyphenate, then still up-and-coming, produced a pilot presentation for it.
On the show so far, Waithe says, “For us internally, we’re all very happy with what we’re getting. We have amazing directors, a fresh face cast, a wonderful team of writers. We have a phenomenal queer woman [as] our DP, who’s shooting all of it. BET has been really supportive with whatever we want to do creatively. No one’s given us any notes or putting us through a filter, it’s pure, real down-to-earth character stuff. Comedy, conflict, all the things you want to see in a TV show. It’s been a very wonderful experience.”
As far as casting Big Sean, she said, “Big Sean is a star. I was really flattered, he mentioned me [at one of his concerts]. I don’t think he knew this, but I’ve been a fan of his for a really long time. Always loved his music, always loved his craft. I messaged him and he was, like, ‘Yo, we should link up at some point.’ He’s from Detroit, I’m from Chicago — we’re not Hollywood. We ended up linking up in real life. I kicked it at his crib, we talked [and] got real with each other. He let me listen to music from his new album, which is amazing. I shared with him some of my experiences in the business. We really connected. There was a character, Tristan, we had written that made me think of him. I didn’t even make him read for it, I knew he’d be right. He’s so natural. He’s so good. He’s easy on the eyes, as we all know. The ladies are going to get a kick out of watching him on screen.”
Source: Shadow & Act
BET Networks has given a series order to Sistas, a drama executive produced by Tyler Perry starring KJ Smith (The Fix), Ebony Obsidian (If Beale Street Could Talk), Mignon Von (42 Seconds) and Novi Brown (Spider). The series is the second to be greenlighted, joining The Oval, under Perry’s exclusive, multi-year content partnership deal with Viacom. Principal photography is underway at Tyler Perry Studios for a fall premiere.
Written, directed and executive produced by Perry, Sistasfollows a group of single black women from different walks of life who bond over their one common thread: Why am I single? In this bold new series, viewers watch these women navigate their “complicated love life” status, careers and friendship through the ups-and-downs of living in a modern world of social media and unrealistic relationship goals. The hourlong drama takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride of emotions and hilarious moments that are the epitome of #squadgoals.
Smith will play Andrea “Andi” Barnett. The “common sense one of the group,” Andi is a successful divorce lawyer focused on taking her career to the next level. She is confident, driven, ambitious, clever, witty and accomplished. She is reliable and the emergency call if ever needed.
Obsidian will play Karen Mott. Owner of an up-and-coming hair salon, Karen is street-smart, headstrong and independent. Tired of being mistreated by men, she is beginning to take a very close look at the relationships in her life. Karen is the “tough love” girl of her group.
Von will portray Daniella “Danni” King, the kind of woman who doesn’t hold back. She is the “ride or die” girl. Although she tends to be very involved with everyone else’s business but her own, she means well and has the best intentions. Danni is comical, fearless and marches to the beat of her own drum. She always has her girls’ back. Danni is the unbiased supporter of the group and works in customer service at the airport.
Brown will play Sabrina Hollins. Stylish and smart, she works as a bank teller and is intrigued when one of her customers asks her out. Although she tends to be reserved and plays it safe, she goes against the grain and tries something new but doesn’t know how she feels about it. Sabrina is supportive of her girls and is the peacemaker of the group.
Source: Deadline