Will we be seated for this? Lena Waithe opened up a few new film she is growing, and can star Issa Rae.
Waithe revealed that she is growing a movie that may flip her “troubled friendship” with Issa Rae right into a buddy comedy, and it’ll star each of them.
On a current episode of Bustle’s One Nightstand podcast, Waithe described the film as “humorous and foolish,” impressed by their “friendship breakup.”
“I’m engaged on this film for myself and Issa Rae,” Waithe mentioned. “It’s a extremely cool thought about us being buddies and having a little bit of a friendship breakup, and it’s actually humorous and foolish. I used to be speculated to be writing beats for her, however I finally simply began writing the script.”
She additionally revealed the she and Rae have been discussing plans for the film over Zoom including the characters within the movie can be “thinly-veiled variations” of themselves whereas additionally including “The characters’ names [are] Lena and Issa, I’m not even being that imaginative about it.”
Waithe added, they “need to” play themselves within the movie. “Issa’s going to be like, ‘Oh s***, nicely now we acquired to do it.”
This Will Mark Lena Waithe’s First Movie Since 2019’s Queen & Slim
This newest information comes on the heels of Waite wrapping up her Showtime drama, The Chi, which can lastly finish after eight seasons, placing it in the identical class as different Showtime collection Dexter, Homeland and Weeds because the community’s second-longest working collection.
Every time this movie begins manufacturing, it is going to be the primary venture for the reason that controversial 2019 movie, Queen & Slim that starred Daniel Kaluuyah and Jodie Turner-Smith which sparked alot of dicussions about its plot revolving round a Black couple on the run after capturing a cop by accident following a blind date.
Regardless of the fallout, talking with Deadline, Waithe mentioned she remains to be making movies telling the web site in an interview “As for what the long run holds, I nonetheless plan on telling tales, persevering with to construct neighborhood, and making area for us all to be seen.”
For Rae, she is coming off 2023’s field workplace hit Barbie and the critically acclaimed American Fiction.