Actress Jennifer Beals attends the 5th Annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel on February 23, 2012 in Beverly Hills
*ABC will see an “L Word” reunion on its new Romeo & Juliet-esque drama pilot “Venice.” The Showtime series’ star Jennifer Beals has signed on for a lead, while creator/executive producer Ilene Chaiken has come on board as executive producer/showrunner, according to Deadline.
“Venice” is a soap about the haves and the have-nots of California’s most seductive city, Venice. It focuses on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as they battle for control of Venice.
Beals will play Lisa Carver, the elegant bohemian matriarch of the Carver family, one of the two feuding clans. McG is directing the pilot.
Unless Jennifer Beals is playing a black woman with a black family,it’s not going to make it.When she was on The “L” Word on Showtime,she never acknowledged her blackness.Even though Pam Grier was her sister and the late Ozzie Davis was her father.The best episode in
the whole series was when a black woman at a support group called her out on it.But the fact still remains that she does not play many “Black” roles.Ilene Chaikin dropped the ball on that
show,because she only told “White Lesbian” stories.Never had any black friends or anything.So
we will see what happens with this show “Venice”. Kerry Washington,she will never be.Peace and Blessings!