Teyonah Parris and Danielle Brooks are joining Before I Let Go, Peacock’s upcoming series based on the novel by romance author Kennedy Ryan.
Ryan and Malcolm D. Lee created the series together and co-wrote the pilot, with Lee also directing. The series follows Yasmen Wade, played by Parris, a successful restaurateur and mother whose marriage to Josiah Wade falls apart following a series of devastating losses. After their divorce, the former couple navigates shared custody while trying to rebuild their individual lives, but as Yasmen begins finding happiness again, her continued closeness with Josiah raises the question of whether their relationship deserves a second chance. Brooks plays Hendrix Barry, Yasmen’s best friend, a confident, successful entrepreneur who pours herself into the people and causes she cares about, childless by choice and undecided on marriage, and known as the life of every party.
From Scratch creators Attica Locke and Tembi Locke write and serve as showrunners. Ryan and Lee executive produce alongside John Legend and Mike Jackson via Get Lifted Film Co., Debra Martin Chase for Martin Chase Productions, and Dominique Telson of Blackmaled. Universal Global Television and Universal Television produce.
Parris is known for playing Monica Rambeau in Marvel’s WandaVision and The Marvels, with additional credits including They Cloned Tyrone, Candyman, Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk, and Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq. She recently appeared in Apple TV+’s Matchbox: The Movie and Netflix’s No Good Deed, and has joined the cast of Gavin O’Connor’s drama Running, alongside an upcoming role opposite Denzel Washington in Christopher McQuarrie’s untitled thriller Compassionate Release.
Brooks, an Emmy winner who earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for playing Sofia in 2023’s The Color Purple, first gained wide recognition as Taystee in Orange Is the New Black before joining the DC universe as Leota Adebayo in Peacemaker. Her upcoming projects include Netflix’s Bad Day opposite Cameron Diaz, A Minecraft Movie Squared, and a return to Off-Broadway next winter in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown alongside David Hyde Pierce, Ayo Edebiri, and Jin Ha.
This marks the latest project uniting Lee, the Locke sisters, and Dominique Telson, a creative team also behind Amazon’s Whiskey Matriarch, starring Taraji P. Henson, underscoring just how consistently this group continues working together across projects.
Before I Let Go has received a series order from Peacock. A premiere date has not yet been announced.