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EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actress, writer, producer, and head Jada Pinkett Smith has signed pinch Independent Artist Group crossed nan board.
She joins a slew of chap powerhouse women connected IAG‘s roster, including Taraji P. Henson, Regina Hall, Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Stone, and Mary J Blige.
Pinkett Smith is group to prima adjacent successful nan upcoming sequel Girls Trip 2, which will again beryllium directed by Malcolm D Lee, and starring other Hall, Queen Latifah, and Tiffany Haddish. All 4 stars return to their original roles from nan first film, Girls Trip, released successful 2017. The sequel will spell into accumulation astatine nan extremity of 2026.
Additionally, she has played salient roles successful characteristic films, including Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, and Matrix Resurrections, Michael Mann’s Collateral, other Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, The Nutty Professor other Eddy Murphy, Set It Off pinch Queen Latifah, and Menace II Society, from first-time board nan Hughes Brothers.
On nan TV front, Pinkett Smith is presently moving pinch Lee’s Blackmaled Productions successful packaging nan series The Big O, which she co-wrote, will direct, and executive nutrient pinch Lee. She will adjacent reprise nan domiciled of Lena James that she primitively played successful A Different World successful nan show’s sequel bid from Netflix. All 10 episodes of nan caller bid will driblet connected September 24. Her anterior credits see Fox’s Gotham, CBS’ The Equilizer, and nan lead domiciled successful nan TNT aesculapian play Hawthorne.
In 2018, Pinkett Smith executive produced nan Facebook Watch chat bid Red Table Talk, speaking connected a sheet alongside girl Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, sharing points of position from different generations. The topics discussed included motherhood, addiction, intelligence illness, and home abuse. The halfway trio hosted personage guests crossed nan show’s 5 seasons, for illustration Toni Braxton, Leah Remini, and Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith. She besides executive produced nan talk show’s spinoff bid Red Table Talk: The Estefans, led by Gloria Estefan.
As an executive producer, Pinkett Smith has besides been down produced projects specified arsenic 2010’s The Karate Kid, Free Angela, All Political Prisoners, and The Queen Latifah Show.
