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After the season one finale of black-ish the ball really got rolling. The idea became a reality as it moved

from Kenya Barris (the creator of black-ish) to Girls Trip producer Tracy Y. Oliver to Will Packer and

eventually landed with Universal where, if history repeats itself as it is wont to do, Little is soon to be a
hit.

The film’s premise is similar to the Tom Hanks film, but reversed and with a whole bunch of girl bosses

in the mix.
In Little Marsai plays the younger version of Regina Hall’s character, a businesswoman named Jordan

who was bullied in her youth, which turned her into, as many of the cast puts it on set that day “a

monster.”
She’s the head of a tech company who puts her assistant April (played by Issa Rae) through the ringer.

She pushes literally everybody around. That is, until one day, Jordan is rude to the wrong little girl and,

with the flick of a plastic wand, she is sent back to middle school. Young Jordan then has to navigate life

as a middle-schooler and keep her company running. With the help of April, it might just be possible.

Martin tells ESSENCE exclusively

“She’s a butthole, but no one really says anything

because she’s the boss. She might cut you,” the Blackish
star continues about Hall’s onscreen persona.

But when the boss, who’s got nothing on Miranda Priestly, comes across someone who won’t take her

mean spiritedness and wishes that she “was little” so she could be checked, Hall’s Sanders is turned
into a miniature version of herself, played by Martin.

Little, produced by Will Packer and directed by Tina Gordon, was shot last year in Atlanta.

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