Lyriq Bent Nabs Final Lead Role In Spike Lee’s ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Netflix SeriesPosted by Wilson Morales
October 18, 2016
Lyriq Bent, best known for his roles in the Saw films and the Canadian television series Rookie Blue, has nabbed the final male lead role in Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. In Lee’s 1986 movie, the role was played by John Terrell Canada.
Already cast in the series is Dewanda Wise, who will play Nola Darling, Hamilton’s Anthony Ramos as Mars Blackmon, and Cleo Anthony as Jamie Overstreet
The series centers on Nola (Wise), a Brooklyn-based artist in her late 20s struggling to define herself and divide her time amongst her friends, her job and her three lovers: the cultured model Greer Childs (Anthony); the protective investment banker Jamie Overstreet; and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos), who still wears Jordans but now is a social-media phenomenon. Wise’s Nola Darling is a sexually liberated, free spirited painter/mixed media artist.
Lee will direct all 10 episodes of the series, which he created and executive produces with his producer wife Tonya Lewis Lee. Netflix is the studio.
Bent played Officer Daniel Rigg in the hit horror films Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV and was last seen in the BET miniseries The Book of Negroes.
