Netflix completes Women Like Us cast as filming starts
Netflix has completed the cast for Women Like Us, adding nine performers to its new ensemble comedy.
Greg Tarzan Davis, Melanie Liburd, Harry Lennix, Joy Bryant and Danielle Pinnock are among the new additions, alongside Dewayne Perkins, Samara Joy, Tiffany Boone and Gail Bean, Deadline reported on 28 September. The nine join together. Their arrival finalises the wider line-up around the central stars.
That central group was already set. Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams, Jenifer Lewis and Whoopi Goldberg lead the film. The four actors form the core quartet at the heart of the story.
Behind the camera, Tasha Smith is directing. She is working from a script by Ali Kinney, with writing by Tracy Oliver. In film-making, the director guides the performances and the look of the picture, while the script sets the story, scenes and dialogue.
The film is made for Netflix by two production companies. Those companies are Higher Ground and Macro Film Studios. In practice, that means they have developed the project and are overseeing the shoot for the streaming service, which will release the finished film to its subscribers.
Casting announcements of this kind usually come in stages. Leads are named first to set the tone. Supporting players follow to fill the world around them. A nine-name addition in one go completes that picture in a single step.
Production is already under way. Filming has begun, according to Netflix's Tudum site. That stage is when the cast and crew shoot the scenes that will later be edited into the finished picture.
Netflix describes Women Like Us as an all-star dramedy. The term simply means a comedy with dramatic moments, where the laughs sit alongside more serious scenes about life and relationships. The streamer is presenting it as an ensemble piece, built around a large group of characters rather than a single lead.
What makes this stand out for viewers is scale. Four well-known leads now sit inside a much larger group. Nine more faces fill out that world. For a general audience, that usually means overlapping stories, quick entrances and plenty of shared scenes as filming continues.
