There’s a buzz in the air about the actress Jamila C. Gray who is the lead in “On the Come Up” and it started at the Toronto Film Festival. The film marks Emmy-nominated actress Sanaa Lathan’s feature directorial debut.
On The Come Up: Jamila C. Gray stars in Paramount+'s, ON THE COME UP. Photo: Erika Doss/ Paramount+© 2022 Paramount Players, a Division of Paramount Picturesand it started at the Toronto Film Festival. The film marks Emmy-nominated actress Sanaa Lathan’s feature directorial debut.
“I know a lot of women in my life who are exactly like Bri. So I had a lot to pull from, as well as there are so many parallels between me and her. She’s moving forward. Bri’s definitely on her come up and I am being on mine. She’s searching for herself. I’m finding myself and that happened in the process of playing her,” she confides.
Kudos to Gray anchoring the film as an unknown lead but to be directed by Lathan, who has starred in many films including the classic “Love & Basketball” and shows such as “Succession,” was an added bonus. As an actress, Lathan understood how to get performances from her cast. “That was really tough,” she says. “So for me to understand her rage, I really had to understand what she had been through. I stepped into research, talking with people who suffered from addiction and watching documentaries about women whose parents were addicts.
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