Not many people would look at a 50-year-old novel by Judy Blume and see a story that could just as easily be set in present-day Los Angeles with two Black teens. Mara Brock Akil, the creator and executive producer of Netflix‘s new romance series Forever, is not many people.
Inspired by the eponymous novel by Blume, Brock Akil and her team took a bittersweet story about love and teenage sexuality and brought it to life with Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. playing two star-crossed teens who have their first sexual experiences together. For the Girlfriends creator, to adapt a book like this without adding her own unique perspective, it would just
“I wanted to show how just modern times and race and switching the lens on gender, those three changes just sort of opened up the scope of it,” the
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