A girls trip takes a turn for the unimaginable in the first trailer forZola.
In the first full-length trailer for the A24 film,Taylour Paigeplays Zola, a Detroit waitress who strikes up a friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who convinces Zola to join her in Florida for a weekend of fun, dancing and partying.
“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch here fell out?” Zola is heard saying. “It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”
Riley Keough (left) and Taylour Paige (right) inZola.Courtesy A24
“From here on out, watch every move this bitch makes,” Zola says of Stefani.
As their short-lived friendship crumbles, Zola tells Stefani, “This is messy. You are messy. Your brain is broke!”
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The film is also based on a November 2015Rolling Stonearticle that went more in-depth about the series of events with Wells King. Bravo toldVarietyshe felt attached to the material instantly.
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“From the moment it entered into my hands, I was like, ‘Must make it now,'” Bravo told the outlet in January 2020.
“You’re like, this is not funny on paper. Like it’s not funny. But [A’Ziah] managed to extrapolate all of this humor and tension and stress and anxiety and it just like got me. … It was electric,” Bravo said. “I could feel the blood coursing through my veins and I wanted it and I thought that like only a Black girl could’ve experienced that and processed it and exorcised it.”
The film also stars Nicholas Braun, Colman Domingo, Ari’el Stachel, Jason Mitchell and Ts Madison.
Zolais in theaters this summer.
source: people.com
