And fans who have been rocking with her back when she blazed a fresh trail in the streaming world with indy channel Black&Sexy TV will surely thrill to the sight of Lina Green, a beloved star from that original company, as Darci’s twin assistant opposite real-life sister Erica Jaye, too. Even director Numa Perrier appears on camera. Janet Hubert, AKA the original Aunt Viv, also hams it up as Jenna’s concerned mother who nonetheless evicts her only child for crimping mom and dad’s sex life. Reality TV star Ts Madison delights as the grand dame in mourning over Taraji P Henson, the pet peacock she chased to death. Another former NBA wife, La La Anthony, is one of Jenna’s homegirls. The Black celebrity cameos alone run from rap icon Remy Ma to Union’s own husband, the NBA legend Dwyane Wade. The line is punctuated with a nervous chuckle, but the film could not be more serious about taking care of its own. That’s when Jenna endorses Black nepotism. She’s barely settled into the great style closet that becomes her office when Darci introduces her son, Eric (up-and-comer Keith Powers), the beguiling videographer Jenna drunkenly met and made out with at a party the night before. Doyenne-in-chief Darci (Gina Torres) holds a grudge against Jenna for the jobs and man she stole away, but agrees to take her on in the end. To make rent, she walks into an Essence-like magazine to pitch herself as its next creative director. After a protracted self-imposed exile at her childhood home upstate, Jenna starts over in Brooklyn.
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