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Demetria Lucas’ book-to-film ‘Don’t Waste Your Pretty,’ spotlights Black love
Redaric Williams, Deborah Joy Winans and Keri Hilson (Courtesy of TV ONE)
In the new TV ONE original film, “Don’t Waste Your Pretty” a group of close-knit friends sort out their turbulent life issues and love lives relying on one another to figure out their next move when jobs, romance or family interactions prove more complicated than they anticipated.
Spotlighting platonic and romantic Black love, the film is based on the eponymous 2014 novel penned by award-winning author and media personality Demetria L. Lucas. The cast of “Don’t Waste Your Pretty” includes: Keri Hilson as Mykah, a successful career woman who is navigating the dating maze; Redaric Williams as her younger brother, Michael, who is crushing on Jeanné played by Deborah Joy Winans, a divorcee resistant to giving love another chance; and Jasmine Burke as the feisty creative, Aisha. The novel cast of character
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Greenleaf star plays Jeanné, a recent divorcee who now struggles in the love department, although she finds it in someone close to her.
“In playing the role of Jeanné, I think that you see a woman that has just really struggled with her hurt and her betrayal,” Winans tells ABC Audio. “And so she holds on to it for so long that she cannot see the love and the beauty that’s right in front of her. And I want people to recognize that it’s OK to be hurt.”
“It’s ok to feel betrayed and to be vulnerable and to just recognize what that is,” she continues. “It’s not ok to hold onto it. All you do is stifle your own growth [and] your own journey. When you’re holding on, you’re looking back and I think I want people to be able to walk away from this saying, ‘I’m letting the past go so that I can truly embrace my future. I can embrace the very blessing that’s right in front of me. ”
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