Rashida Jones is returning to the small display, taking up her first starring function in a collection since “Angie Tribeca” wrapped in 2018. The “Parks and Recreation” and “Workplace” alumna will topline “Sunny,” an Apple TV+ darkish comedy based mostly on the guide “Darkish Handbook.” Katie Robbins (“The Affair”) is penning the variation and is amongst its exec producers.
The half-hour present follows Suzie (Jones), “an American lady residing in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious aircraft crash,” per Selection. “As ‘comfort’ she’s given Sunny, certainly one of a brand new class of home robots made by her husband’s electronics firm. Although at first Suzie resents Sunny’s makes an attempt to fill the void in her life, steadily they develop an sudden friendship, as collectively they uncover the darkish fact of what actually occurred to Suzie’s household, turning into dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie by no means knew existed.”
Jones was final seen on the massive display in “On the Rocks,” Sofia Coppola’s 2020 daughter-father comedy. She has just lately appeared in “Ghosts of Tinseltown” and #BlackAF,” and voices a personality on “Duncanville,” an animated collection on Fox that’s co-created by her “Parks and Rec” co-star Amy Poehler. Her upcoming slate consists of “Wool,” an Apple TV+ dystopian collection that’s led by “Dune’s” Rebecca Ferguson.
The multi-hyphenate’s credit behind the scenes embrace the 2012 pic “Celeste & Jesse Eternally,” which she co-wrote and starred in, and “Quincy,” a 2018 doc about her dad, Quincy Jones, that she helmed. She’s an exec producer on Niecy Nash-starrer “Claws,” a TNT crime dramedy that’s at the moment in its fourth and remaining season on TNT.
Requested how she feels about navigating “predominantly white skilled areas as a combined lady of shade,” Jones instructed HelloGiggles, “I’m fortunate now within the sense that I’m able the place I can rent folks. I believe earlier in my profession as an actress, I simply needed to look ahead to folks to say sure or no, and in the event that they stated no, there’s nothing I may do. However now that I’m able the place I can carry folks with me, I really feel a duty to be sure that I’m a part of the answer of diversifying the room. In order that’s a part of how I navigate it,” she defined. “I attempt in a approach that I really feel like I may be empathetic and be heard. I attempt to name folks out on their privilege. I attempt to test myself alone privilege. It’s an lively factor. It’s not nearly saying it or accusing different folks of it — the one approach it actually works is when you see yours and see others’ [privilege] on the identical time.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood
