‘Forever’ Season 2 Adds Three To Cast As Production Gets Underway In Los Angeles

Production has officially begun connected nan 2nd play of Mara Brock Akil’s Forever astatine Netflix. The show has besides added 3 caller faces — 1 bid regular and 2 recurring — to its cast.

Malaika Guttoh has joined nan formed arsenic a bid regular pinch Avery Wills Jr. (Swagger, Shooting Stars) and Tre McBride (Fight for ‘84) joining arsenic recurring guests. Guttoh will play Ameena. Wills Jr. will play Jaden, and Tre McBride will play Elijah.

Season 2’s logline teases a clip jump for Keisha Clark (Lovie Simone) and Justin Edwards (Michael Cooper Jr.) arsenic nan adjacent installment will prime up 4 years later, post-pandemic, pinch nan brace doing good and successful caller relationships. They besides person existent jobs, and they spell astir their abstracted lives arsenic adults until they tally into each different successful nan summertime of 2023. This begs nan question, “Can exes really beryllium friends?”

Karen Pittman (The Morning Show), Wood Harris (Remember nan Titans), and Xosha Roquemore (Captain America: Brave New World) will besides return arsenic bid regulars. Pittman and Harris play Justin’s parents, Dawn and Eric, and Rosquemore plays Keisha’s mother Shelly.

Akil serves arsenic showrunner, creator and executive producer. Regina King, Susie Fitzgerald, Reina King and Erika Harrison are besides executive producers.

Grammy-Award winning Khris Riddick-Tynes’ will subordinate arsenic nan Executive Music Producer for Season 2 pinch Kier Lehman returning arsenic Music Supervisor and Original Music by Until Tomorrow. 

Forever joins different Netflix productions successful Los Angeles including nan caller releases of BEEF season 2 and Running Point season 2 arsenic good arsenic nan upcoming releases of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Nobody Wants This season 3, A Man connected nan Inside season 3, The Night Agent play 4, Leanne Season 2, The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5, The Hawk and Animals. 

Season 2 will incorporate 8 episodes. The show is simply a reimagining of nan Young Adult caller by Judy Blume.