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EXCLUSIVE: Shabana Azeez, 1 of nan stars of HBO’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning aesculapian drama The Pitt, has signed connected for a return to her indie roots with Unrequited, a romance marking nan directorial debut of Lynn Q. Yu.
Based connected an original book by Yu, Unrequited centers astir 2 erstwhile assemblage roommates, Trish and Anjali. When Trish learns that her champion friend and once-lover Anjali (Azeez) is leaving nan U.S. to return location to India, she takes her connected a goodbye roadtrip to research nan divers cuisines of California and person Anjali to stay.
Producers on Unrequited include Jake Casey (Hallowarrior) and Danielle Benedict (Heightened Scrutiny) of The Dazey Phase, positive John Gray of It’s Not Pork. Rich Freeman and Rick Berg are exec producing for Code Entertainment (The Mongoose), pinch accumulation to footwear disconnected successful California adjacent spring.
Yu is possibly champion known for nan K-pop thriller Perfect Girl, an adjustment of her 2023 Black List script Unnie, which filmed successful Thailand precocious past twelvemonth and is expected to merchandise successful 2027.
She told Deadline, “Shabana is simply a tremendous talent. We’re truthful thrilled to beryllium moving pinch specified an breathtaking character of her generation, personification who really embodies nan ethos and tone of nan script. Audiences are going to get to spot Shabana successful a measurement they haven’t seen her before, successful a domiciled that is by turns funny and sexy and charming arsenic hell.”
In The Pitt, HBO’s bid examining nan melodramatic day-to-day successful nan emergency section astatine nan fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, Azeez plays Dr. Victoria Javadi. Previously, nan Australian character has besides appeared opposite Succession‘s Sarah Snook successful nan Netflix thriller Run Rabbit Run. Among her different upcoming projects is nan drama The Airport Chaplain for Australia’s SBS. She is repped by Stride Management, CP Artist Management, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
