Chicago Actor Casting Call: Modern-day Black Romantic Comedy

On paper, Rocco meets all the requirements of a high-value man. He’s well-built, fashion-forward without being pretentious, he’s tall, cultured and educated. He’s a seeker of knowledge, a hopeless romantic looking for a running partner. His willingness to help and be a hero makes him approachable and lovable.

Male romantic lead – 25 scenes

She’s Black. She’s fat. She’s over 27. Red Pill incels call her a ‘leftover, fatty 304 (hoe/whore). All that hate means nothing because at 35 years old, she’s absolutely done taking shit about her appearance. She loves herself, her life, and she makes her lovers rock hard. As the youngest of 3 daughters, she used to being spoiled by the men in her life.

Female romantic lead – 35 scenes

Atlanta’s most infamous Red Pill grifter. Devin nails the faux intellectual aesthetic–including thick statement specs and overly ‘enhanced’ hair. He’s smug, loves metaphors and analogies, and setting intellectual traps.

Lead villain – 21 scenes

What’s not to love about this high-value man? He’s Dark skinned, tall, and hella ripped–he looks like a Black erotica novel cover model. Confident. Not jealous. Ready to settle.

Supporting false love – 14 scenes

Sheree is peak femininity in ‘classy bitch’ attire. Her French-leaning Haitian accent gives foreign appeal. If Destiny’s Child “Cater to You” was a person, it would be Sheree.

Supporting / villain’s love interest – 10 scenes

The monarch of messy daytime television. Wendell is a nonbinary media maven who spills the tea, gets the drama, all while rocking a fabulous wardrobe. Don’t let the party-girl antics fool you, Wendell is calculating and always has insider info.

Supporting – 15 scenes

The type of woman people are tempted to judge solely from her ‘cover’: a stupid-tight security uniform, long acrylic nails, a 40-inch buss down wig–you know the look. But then, Alexia’s straight-shooter persona relaxes them to the point of willingly revealing their secrets. She’s the type of stranger who makes you feel like you’ve been friends forever even though you’ve just met.

Supporting – 7 scenes

Dijah is Kelly’s surrogate mom, wise bestie, and employer. She’s a sexually liberated woman who has lived and is absolutely not interested chasing youth. As a licensed couples therapist she absolutely believes that everyone is worthy of love. She embraces love and romantic pairings of all kinds. The rise of the manosphere and its Red Pill-pushing gurus absolutely frustrates her. She carries significant guilt for getting Kelly caught in this war with Devin and his army of misogynistic incels.

Supporting – 6 scenes

Everything about him is so average. He feels very much like a small-town gym teacher past their prime. a novice at negging. He’s a worm of man and only a self-hating, virginal Christian woman, who is pushing 33 (gasp!) and desperate to fulfill her godly calling to be a tradwife would give him a second look. Myron is a man completely lost in manosphere, red pill rhetoric.

Supporting – 9 scenes

Gertrude is 60 going on 30. Following a lifetime of being out of shape and chronically single, she determined not to waste her second act. The gawds saw her fitness efforts and rewarded her with a glow-up; her skin-removal surgery went wrong and she woke up with a BBL and new tiddies! Now she’s in Ruby Nicole’s Gems Bootcamp and ready to go from sugar baby to high-value housewife.

Supporting – 10 scenes

Ruby Nicole is an unabashed, high-maintenance man-eater, everything has her brand on it. Shameless self-promoter. She loves a Birkin, but she’s no ditzy bird; she’s a master of her craft and creator of a 4-phase system that helps women and femme secure the ring and alimony.

Supporting villain – 13 scenes

In this capacity, you will cover any femme or nonbinary extra with speaking roles.

In this capacity, you will cover any masculine or nonbinary extra with speaking roles.