"It's a really cool idea about us being friends and having a bit of a friendship breakup, and it's really funny and silly. I was supposed to be writing beats for her, but I ultimately just started writing the script, so I may just send that to her at some point. It was like trying to write the beats was getting to be too difficult and so I just started working on the script."
"She and I zooming and talking and figuring out how it could be, and right now I'm being lazy - the character's names [are] Lena and Issa, I'm not even being that imaginative about it. They're thinly-veiled versions of ourselves,"
"So this is definitely an exclusive. Issa's going to be like, 'Oh sh*t, well now we got to do it.'"
Lena Waithe is preparing to close out the eighth season of The Chi, which has become the longest-running Black drama on cable, surpassing Soul Food. Lena Waithe's podcast Legacy Talk recently completed its second season with guest Phylicia Rashad. Lena Waithe is active in theater, with the play Trinity premiering in Baltimore and several other produced plays debuting in coming months. Lena Waithe is developing a film project with Issa Rae about friends experiencing a friendship breakup; the screenplay uses thinly veiled versions of their names and aims to star both. Lena Waithe cites books as sources of inspiration, including This Is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson.
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