Sasheer Zamata & Stella Meghie – The Weekend

By starrymag | June 18, 2019

By: Ashlee Dell’Arciprete

 

 

Q) This was a really expert film from the story to the really great comedy throughout the entire film with much-needed representation in feature films today. Talk about the importance of representation for you?

 

Stella Meghie: Thank you. I want to see myself, so I make films about girls like me and my friends. And, so there needs to be varied and layered and a wider breadth of black women on camera.

 

Q) And for you, Sasheer, what was it like being a comedian portraying Zadie who is also a comedian?

 

Sasheer Zamata: It helps that I’m a stand-up and I guess I understand what it’s like to be brutally honest and Zadie is definitely that. She’s kind of like an unfiltered version of what I aim to be. And, yeah, it was very fun to play someone who is unapologetically herself.

 

Q) This film’s premise makes for a very awkward weekend for Zadie, but more-so for her ex and his current girlfriend, doesn’t it?

 

Sasheer Zamata: She doesn’t feel awkward, I don’t think. She does make people around feel very awkward though, which [laughs] can be fun. But, yeah, usually I’m on the other end of that. Usually I feel the anxiety, but it’s fun to dole it out a little bit.

 

Q) Imagine this were a real-life situation where you were that close with an ex, would you have ever gone on a trip like that?

 

Stella Meghie: I would never be caught dead in any type of situation like that. [laughs]

 

Sasheer Zamata: Yeah, no way. I don’t really keep exes around that long!

 

 

 

 

Read our review of The Weekend here!

 

The Weekend held its New York Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and is currently seeking distribution.

View the rest of our red carpet coverage from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival here!