Netflix Announces Women Like Us Comedy Starring Whoopi Goldberg
The film pairs four veteran stars in a story about grief, marriage and second chances, marking the first Higher Ground-Macro feature collaboration for Netflix.
- Netflix announced the original comedy "Women Like Us," starring Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams, and Vivica A. Fox. Director Tasha Smith will helm production this fall in New York City.
- A recently widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her lifelong best friends and sister on what should have been her 30th anniversary. The weekend becomes a reckoning with grief, marriage, and the sisterhood that has carried them throughout the years.
- Charles D. King's Macro Film Studios and President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground are producing the film. Michelle Obama and King will executive produce.
- Ali Kinney wrote the original script with additional writing from Tracy Oliver, whose credits include "Ginny & Georgia" and "Girls Trip." Both writers bring established experience to the feature comedy.
- This project continues Netflix and Higher Ground's partnership, which began in 2018. The company has produced various works featuring Black talent, including "Rustin" and "American Symphony.
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Whoopi Goldberg Joins Star-Studded Netflix Comedy
ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGAZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA Whoopi Goldberg is heading back to the small screen with another major acting role. The Oscar-winning actress has joined Netflix’s upcoming comedy “Women Like Us,” alongside a group of Hollywood veterans that includes Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams, and Vivica A. Fox. The movie will also mark Goldberg and Lewis’ first on-screen collaboration since the 1999 television comedy “Jackie’s Back!” Production is…
Netflix Sets Star-Studded Comedy 'Women Like Us' Starring Whoopi Goldberg | EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More
Whoopi Goldberg – via ABC *Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams and Vivica A. Fox will headline Netflix’s upcoming comedy “Women Like Us,” THR reports. The film follows a widow whose friends persuade her to join them for a Hamptons getaway. Here’s the official synopsis: “When a recently widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her lifelong best friends and sister on what should have been her 30th anniversary, the weekend becomes a…
Whoopi Goldberg plays in the Netflix comedy "Women Like Us" which is produced by the Obama company. Whoopi Goldberg (70) shoots a film for the production company of Barack (64) and Michelle Obama (62). The Oscar winner takes over one of the leading roles in "Women Like Us", a comedy created as an original film for Netflix. Next to her are Jenifer Lewis (69), Vanessa Williams (63) and Vivica A. Fox (61) in front of the camera. Filmed in New York …
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