Interview: Emmy Winner Judith Light Talks New Movie The Young Wife By ComingSoon spoke with Emmy award winner Judith Light about her role in the new drama The Young Wife. Directed and written by Tayarisha Poe, it stars Kiersey Clemons, Leon Bridges, Kelly Marie Tran, and Michaela Watkins, with Sheryl Lee Ralph. (a Paramount Pictures label) will make available digitally on May 31, 2024.
“On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman (Kiersey Clemons, Dope) and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband (singer/songwriter Leon Bridges) is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic in the film,” says the synopsis. : Yeah, absolutely. I agree with you.
It has all of those components to it that it’s almost magical realism. The way she shot it and the lighting and all of those effects. It was Tayarisha.
I knew her work from before, and we had a meeting, and I wanted to work with her, and I read the script, and I said, “I wanna do this.” It’s not often that you have somebody who’s written and directed something really understanding, and in connection with you around how this will play out. I was gonna get to work with Kiersey Clemons, and I knew that too, and, of course, Leon Bridges, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Michaela Watkins.
Friends, people I’ve known. So there were new people, and the way Tayarisha talked about it and the way she was gonna be directing it, it was compelling, and it made me wanna do it..
