Meagan Good and Jerrie Johnson Talk Prime Video's 'Harlem' Season 2
Moviefone speaks with Meagan Good and Jerrie Johnson about 'Harlem' Season 2. "This season Camille is discovering who she is and who she isn't," said Good.
Premiering on Prime Video beginning February 3rd is the second season of the popular series ‘Harlem,’ which was created by Tracy Oliver (‘Girls Trip’).
In season two of ‘Harlem,’ after blowing up her career and disrupting her love life, Camille (Meagan Good) has to figure out how to put the pieces back together. While Tye (Jerrie Johnson) considers her future, Quinn (Grace Byers) goes on a journey of self-discovery, and Angie’s (Shoniqua Shandai) career takes a promising turn.
The series also features Tyler Lepley, Juani Feliz, Jasmine Guy, Andrea Martin, and Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Meagan Good and Jerrie Johnson to talk about their work on ‘Harlem’ season 2, how their characters have changed since last season, what will happen to them this season, and the overall themes of the series.
(L to R) Jerrie Johnson and Meagan Good star in Prime Video's 'Harlem' Season 2.
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Good, Johnson, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai, Tyler Lepley, and Tracy Oliver.
Moviefone: To begin with, Meagan, can you talk about where we left Camille at the end of last season, and what she’ll be dealing with in season 2?
Meagan Good: At the end of season one, she is dating this amazing guy who is a lot of the things that she's wanted, but she still feels feelings for Ian, her ex. She's deciding between Jameson (Sullivan Jones) and Ian (Tyler Lepley). Then she doesn't really have a choice with Ian because now he's getting married and we finish last season with Quinn going to take Ian's fiancé’s dress that she designed and all those wonderful things. Camille goes inside of the building and runs into Ian, they have this moment and they end up kissing. That's where we end season one.
So season two we pick up right where we left off, dealing with the aftermath, the consequences, the conversations and what actually is going to happen because technically Camille's still dating Jameson and Ian is getting married. Is he getting married? Are they going to get back together? Who knows?
In this season, I think that the biggest arc, the through line that I can share for Camille, is that she's discovering a lot of who she is and she's discovering a lot of who she isn't. I think that she's getting a lot of revelation about things that she thought about herself, or things that she thought about life, or relationships, or whatever it is and just really getting these illuminating realizations.
How it shows itself is pretty interesting and fun to watch because I think everybody can relate to it. It's not like, you almost kissed the groom and then we cut to a year later and let's see where everyone's at. We get in there, we have the moments and we have the real conversations. What would you do and what wouldn't you do? Why did you do it? Why was that important? I think the biggest thing, the through line, is just self-discovery, self-reflection and discovering who she is, which I think she's very surprised with what she finds out about herself.
(L to R) Meagan Good, Shoniqua Shandai, Grace Byers, and Jerrie Johnson in Prime Video's 'Harlem' Season 2.
MF: Finally, Jerrie, can you talk about what Tye is going through this season?
Jerrie Johnson: There's a lot at stake for Tye with the health scare, with her husband showing up and dealing with what that might look like and not wanting to address that, but having that in close proximity. Then also not being completely honest with her friends about her husband and him not leaving. I think she is afraid. She doesn't want to say that she's afraid, but she is afraid because Tye has always had control of her life.
Ever since she left home, she's always had control over her life and she's banked on having control of her life because she didn't have that control when she was back home. This is one of the first times in her adult life that everything has spiraled out of control.
So I think for season two she is trying to deal with as much as she can as possible. Some stuff has to fall by the wayside but I think maybe her biggest mission is to prove Brandon (Kadeem Ali Harris) wrong in what he said about her not having love in her life, so now she wants to find love and I think that's her mission of season two.
'Harlem' Season 2 premieres February 3rd on Prime Video.
