Exclusive: Joy Bryant and Henry Simmons talk OWN's new season Of Cherish The Day
Playing on Tuesday, October 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on OWN is a new season of “Cherish the Day,” starring Joy Bryant and Henry Simmons.
“Cherish the Day” is an anthology series that chronicles the relationship of one couple. In season two, the rekindling of a romance is told — the love story of Ellis Moran (Henry Simmons) and Sunday St. James (Joy Bryant), who fell in love in high school but find themselves reunited in beautiful New Orleans. Ellis is a former basketball player who is now a single father of two, and Sunday is a vegetarian celebrity chef on the cusp of fame. Mandeville “MV” St. James (Richard Roundtree) is a proud, loving, wry-humored former judge and widowed father of Sunday, and Anastasia (Terri J. Vaughn) is Ellis’ soon-to-be ex-wife and the mother of their children.
Bryant is best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated role as Jasmine in the long-running series Parenthood, and recently starred in the ABC series For Life opposite Nicholas Pinnock and Indira Varma. Joy has appeared opposite Dwayne Johnson on HBO’s Emmy Award-nominated drama Ballers, was a regular on the critically acclaimed Amazon original series Good Girls Revolt, and guest starred in the final season of HBO’s award-winning series Girls. Her film credits include About Last Night, Hit and Run, Bobby, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, The Skeleton Key, Carmen: A Hip Hopera with Beyoncé, and Denzel Washington’s directorial debut, Antwone Fisher.
Simmons most recently starred in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for ABC, and previously starred in the final six seasons of the landmark ABC drama NYPD Blue, created by Steven Bochco and David Milch. He was also a series regular on the CBS legal drama Shark and ABC comedy Man Up. Simmons starred in the feature film No Good Deed, opposite Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, for Screen Gems. He also starred opposite Henson and Michael Clarke Duncan in From the Rough, and opposite Robin Williams in the independent feature World’s Greatest Dad.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Bryant and Simmons on the series and about rekindling an old friendship.