Keri Hilson, Deborah Joy Winans, and Redaric Williams star in the new movie Don’t Waste Your Pretty. It’s a lighthearted love movie. It’s filled with genuine friendship, learning of self, romantic moments, and best of all, Black love. We not only saw the movie early to share our thoughts with our audience, but we interviewed the main cast members too. Watch the interview, you’ll gain some deep insights on love, vulnerabilities, and relationships. The film premieres Sunday, February 28th at 8 pm ET on TV One.
Don’t Waste Your Pretty Synopsis
Don’t Waste Your Pretty follows a group of tightly knit friends as they sort out their turbulent life issues and love lives – always turning to one another to figure out their next move when jobs, romance, or family interactions prove more complicated than they had ever anticipated. The film is based on the eponymous novel penned by award-winning author and media personality Demetria L. Lucas. –TV One
Exclusive Interview With Cast Members
In our exclusive interview with the cast, we learned how intuition, meditation, and prayer are Keri Hilson’s GPS guide in her love life. For those crushing on Keri, if you ever get the chance to shoot your shot, her love language is physical touch and sending quality time. “I like affection,” she explains in our interview.
For Deborah Joy Winans, she portrays a much different role and her character Charity on Greenleaf. This role was more identifiable with her real life. Because of her famous family’s heritage, most would typecast her into religious-only roles. But she played a woman who was broken, and has rebuilt herself, yet finds out she’s blocking her own love blessings by being so guarded.
When we asked the ladies for advice to someone who may be seeking to find love, both Keri and Deborah shared self-love is first. “Nothing matters if you don’t love yourself,” explains Deborah. Keri elaborates, “You have to make ‘self’ a comfortable home, the way you come in and decorate and you make a space yours… you must do that with yourself!” She leaves us with these words of encouragement, “Do some interior design in your heart.” Deborah concludes the statement by saying, “Because if you don’t like you… why would anybody else.”
We asked Redaric Williams if he empathized with any personality traits of his character and he explained how much he admired the character. Because his looks and stature warrant the typical male bravado- this was not the case for his character. His character was “fighting for something, he had passion.” It wasn’t about machismo. “I liked that and gravitated towards that,” describes Redaric.
Don’t Waste Your Pretty Movie Trailer
Don’t Waste Your Pretty Film Review
Keri Hilson, Deborah Joy Winans, and Redaric Williams Star in ‘Don’t Waste Your Pretty’ Movie
Warning… spoiler alert!
Mykah (Keri Hilson) is a successful publishing executive and is currently celibate. She can’t even remember the last time she had sex. She doesn’t have time for a relationship.
Michael (Redaric Williams) is an elusive bachelor. He’s also a successful civil rights attorney. He checks all of the boxes for women but leaves as soon as he knows they’re not “the one.”
Jeanne (Deborah Joy Winans) is one of the twins’ closest friends. She owns a café and is a conflicted divorcee.
Mykah and Michael are twin sister and brother. It’s their birthday and they celebrate with a group of tight-knit friends. Among the many talks at dinner, the ladies grill Michael about why he’s still a bachelor. They know him- they know he leaves just as the women in his life fall in love. He explains, “they’re not the right one.” Mykah is gifted a relationship book as a present. It’s a relationship book by Demetria L. Lucas of the same film name, “Don’t Waste Your Pretty.”
Her friends nudge her to start dating versus being so career-focused. However, she’s been out of the dating game so long, she doesn’t know how to date. She resorts to advice from the book. She tries going out to a bar, a dating app, speed dating, and even being paired with a friend of a friend- a photographer name Jason.
Jeanne has an emotional conversation with one of the group’s mutual friends and confesses her vulnerabilities and hurt from her last marriage.
After many of Mykah’s dating missteps, the girls decide to take her to paint & sip. Unbeknownst to her, it’s a nude male model paint and sip. She has so much fun, she loosens up finally, and gets drunk. Jeanne takes her home. Michael meets them there to help. They put the intoxicated sister down and the longtime friends talk.
They both reminisce on Jeanne’s rocky past with her ex-hubby. But they touched on when they kissed years before her marriage. Then Michael went for a kiss but was almost caught by Mykah emerging for water in a drunken recovering state. The couple ended up completing that passionate kiss until Jeanne ran out the door.
Mykah and Jason’s first date was a hit! They shared great conversations and had so much compatibility. She likes him, takes a first-time chance with him, and kisses him on the first date.
Jeanne and Michael go out to a private dinner in the park. They talk more and Michael goes in for a kiss but Jeanne is apprehensive. She explains that their relationship will get complicated. She knows how to hurts women. Heck… she grew up with his exes crying on her shoulder. He rebuts and says he’s grown. He wants to take it slow, but she’s unsure. Michael confessed he’s in love with Jeanne but his opportunity didn’t line up because she was married. And after her divorce, he had to give her time to heal but couldn’t lose another opportunity again. “It’s always been you,” he tells her. She was the right person he’s been waiting on. They end up making love.
The next morning Mykah comes over and busts him, he makes her promise not to tell the girls (but she can’t hold water.)
Soon after, at Mykah’s job promotion party with friends, Michael and Jeanne finally reveal their “secret” relationship. He tells her that he fell in love with her at 10 years old- and waited for her. He proposed to her.
The moral of this story taught Jeanne that true love was right in front of her, she was in her own way. It showed how patient and resilient Michael was to wait until his time. And Micah learned that it’s fine to take chances, explore dating in order to find the right one.
‘Don’t Waste Your Pretty’ Movie Poster
Be sure to check out Keri Hilson’s new movie Don’t Waste Your Pretty on TV One on Sunday, February 28th at 8 pm ET. Did you enjoy our interview with the cast? What did you learn about yourself from the interview? Chat with us in the comments below!
