Charming, quirky, cartoonish and sweet.
These are just a few ways that viewers have described “Rye Lane,” Hulu’s new British rom-com starring Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson. It’s not just the bright, fun energy of this film, viewers on social media say, it’s seeing two Black people fall for each other, breaking away from typical romantic comedies where Black best friends to white protagonists are relegated to the sidelines.
Oparah recalled someone approaching her during the Pan African Film Festival in February, at one of the film’s earliest showings. “He was like, ‘It’s so beautiful to see two dark-skinned people just fall in love. Usually, they’ll do a dark-skinned man and a lighter-skinned woman. To have you two embrace, that felt really special,’” she recalled.
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