Did Lauren London leave the Games People Play?

Login to BlackFacts.com using your favorite Social Media Login. Click the appropriate button below and you will be redirected to your Social Media Website for confirmation and then back to Blackfacts.com once successful.

Índice Show

Wakanda News Details
You may also like
Why did Lauren London leave the game?

Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts.com. If you cannot remember your login information, click the “Forgot Password” link to reset your password.

Forgot Your Blackfacts Password?

Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts.com. If you cannot remember your login information, click the “Forgot Password” link to reset your password.

Wakanda News Details

Why did Lauren London leave the game?

When Games People Play was greenlit for a second season, many wondered in what capacity star Lauren London would be able to film it, and now we know. Lauren London is not leaving Games People Play, but she will return in Games People Play Season 2 in a limited role.

Vanessa King, a role played by Lauren London, is a basketball player’s wife trying to keep her family together. Vanessa King married her high school sweetheart as he was being drafted into the nation’s premier professional basketball league.

Before losing her fiancé, the actress spoke about playing a basketball wife in BET's "Games People Play."

John Shearer/Getty Images

Lauren London is headed to the small screen in BET’s new guilty pleasure that has her playing the wife of a newly-drafted professional basketball player.

Games People Play is set to launch later this month, following the series finale of the BET hit, Being Mary Jane.

And as London told The Grio before the tragic murder of her longtime partner Nipsey Hussle over the weekend, she’s ready to take on more mature roles.

Lauren London

“Usually the roles I’ve done before [were] like really fun and sassy and you know kind of surface roles,” she said. “This was a broken wife and a woman and I feel like I’m 34, I have kids and I have lived some life that I can put into this.”

London plays Vanessa King, “a loyal yet skeptical wife who married her high school sweetheart,” played by Insecure’s Sarunas J. Jackson, “as he was being drafted into the nation’s premiere professional basketball league,” BET describes the show. “Her lifestyle changed overnight as they went from college sweethearts to a power couple astride a world of money, easy sex, and glamour.”

The show’s cast also includes Parker McKenna Posey and Karen Obilom, who play an ambitious actress and journalist.

“This is the first time I’m on set with co-stars [that] I’m older than. This is a first,” London said. “I was usually the youngest. I think that would be a part of my role here outside of us working together. Being a Black woman working with these Black women, I think that I should be in a position of loving leadership.”

Based on Games Divas Play, the book by former ESSENCE editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray, the show is executive produced by Burt-Murray, Tracey Edmonds, Vanessa Middleton and Kim Newton. Middleton and Newton also serve as co-showrunners for the series.

The show premieres at a special time on April 23 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, following the series finale of Being Mary Jane. Starting April 30, the series will resume at its regular time at 9 p.m. ET/PT.