Exclusive: Gbenga Akinnagbe and Zoë Chao talk Modern Love Season 2
Currently playing on Amazon Prime is the highly anticipated second season of Amazon Original anthology series Modern Love.
In this season, love breaks all the rules. An old flame reignited. A test of friends vs. lovers. A night girl and her day boy. A romance with an ex's ex. A one night stand. An impossible promise. A ghost of a lost lover. An exploration of sexuality. The eight-part second season of the popular series Modern Love brings to life a collection of stories about relationships, connections, betrayals and revelations. Each episode showcases love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, all inspired by true events from the beloved New York Times column of the same name.
The second season of Modern Love features a star-studded cast of actors including Gbenga Akinnagbe, Lucy Boynton, Tom Burke, Zoë Chao, Minnie Driver, Grace Edwards, Dominique Fishback, Kit Harington, Garrett Hedlund, Tobias Menzies, Sophie Okonedo, Zane Pais, Anna Paquin, Isaac Powell, Marquis Rodriguez, and Lulu Wilson. Showrunner John Carney serves as writer, director and executive producer. Andrew Rannells directed an episode this season based upon a personal essay that he penned for the column. The season was filmed in Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, New York, and Dublin, Ireland.
BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales spoke to Zoë Chao and Gbenga Akinnagbe about their episode ‘The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy,’ in which A woman with delayed sleep phase syndrome meets the love of her life. The catch is: he’s awake while the sun is shining and she is not.
Chao is known for her role on the HBO Max series Love Life and the Facebook series Strangers. Akinnagbe is best known for his roles as Chris Partlow on the HBO series The Wire and as Larry Brown on the HBO series The Deuce. He also played Tom Robinson in the Broadway production of To Kill A Mockingbird.