‘Hair Love’ Spinoff ‘Younger Love’ Tackles Black Millennial Parenthood in First Trailer

Max has debuted the primary trailer for Younger Love, the sequence spinoff of Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning Hair Love brief.

The 2-minute teaser for the 12-episode, animated enlargement produced in partnership with Sony Footage Animation options Scott Mescudi (Child Cudi) as music producer Stephen Love, Issa Rae as pure hair vlogger Angela Younger, and Brooke Monroe Conaway as their younger daughter Zuri Younger Love.

The trio navigate the fashionable ups-and-downs of their skilled and private lives in Chicago as artists and a Black millennial-parented household. For Angela, that’s returning to her work as a stylist after most cancers remedy, whereas Steven manages the grind of a profession in an ultra-competitive business.

“Welcome to my fort,” Zuri tells considered one of her associates as they enter her condo. “You possibly can drop your bag on the ground. My mother and pop will get them.”

“Are we the assistance?” Stephen asks. “Worse,” Angela responds. “We’re mother and father.”

With a mixture of heartfelt introspection and comedy, this tight-knight household contemplate the challenges and joys round marriage, social points and multi-generational dynamics whereas striving to make a greater life.

“I want I had a calling. What’s my legacy?” Angela asks earlier than Stephen responds, “Can we’ve got one existential disaster at a time, please?”

“I’m a lady. I can multitask,” Angela quips again.

Whereas talking to The Hollywood Reporter forward of the present’s premiere, Cherry mentioned the TV sequence was an enlargement on Hair Love that the group had been serious about since their Kickstarter marketing campaign days. “Once we first noticed Vashti Harrison’s superb paintings, we had at all times thought, ‘What might this be?’” Cherry says. “A function concept simply felt not sufficiently big, however what at all times felt prefer it might make a ton of sense was a sequence.

“Although the brief didn’t have any dialogue, we did do numerous work in attempting to ascertain who they have been,” he provides.

Younger Love is a part of Max’s increasing animation slate, and is — regardless of its baby inclusiveness — not a youngsters present, although younger audiences can definitely watch. “We wished individuals who beloved the e-book and love the brief movie to not be alienated by the issues that felt too grownup,” Cherry says. “We wished adults, when Zuri is on digicam, and we see her buddy group, to hopefully nonetheless be in it, to search out the comedy on this little lady who’s a natural-born chief, who desires to alter the world and is tremendous outspoken.”

The animated sequence additionally includes a notable supporting voice forged, together with Loretta Devine, Harry Lennix, Tamar Braxton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Debra Wilson and extra. Cherry government produces the sequence alongside Monica A. Younger, Karen Rupert Toliver, Carl Jones, David Steward II, and Carl Reed. Karen Malach is a producer.

Younger Love will debut with 4 episodes on Sept. 21, with 4 new episodes rolling out weekly via the season finale on Oct. 5.