By now everyone knows Ava DuVernay as a severe power in Hollywood. With works corresponding to Selma, 13th, and When They See Us in her oeuvre, the director, govt producer and multi-hyphenate energy participant is understood for provocative initiatives that appear to shake the Earth off its axis slightly bit, enlightening audiences as a lot as they entertain. Properly, it seems she’s additionally a helluva Taboo participant too.
Lately, TV Information visited the headquarters for DuVernay’s Array movie collective, the place she, together with Xosha Roquemore (The Mindy Project) and Alano Miller (Underground) have been available to debate DuVernay’s new collection Cherish the Day. This one’s a love story — an anthology collection that tells the story of a pair’s relationship in eight episodes. As Gently James (Roquemore) and Evan Fisher (Miller) meet, fall in love and face totally different challenges (spoiler: they’re from totally different worlds and have completely totally different views on love), we see them at their greatest, worst and most susceptible.
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Legendary actress Cicely Tyson, in addition to Michael Beach and Anne-Marie Johnson additionally star. Since this story offers with all issues amour, TV Information took the chance whereas in DuVernay’s home to see simply how a lot she, Roquemore and Miller knew about love tales — particularly rom-coms of the 1990s. How’d they do? Properly, let’s simply say all of them know their stuff, not least of them DuVernay, who not solely is aware of all of the rom-coms however faculties us on the foundations too. We like to see it.
Cherish the Day premieres Tuesday, February 11 at 10/9c and returns for its common time slot at Wednesday, February 12 at 8/7c.
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