Actor Spotlight: Whoopi Goldberg starts filming Netflix’s Women Like Us with Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams and Vivica A. Fox in the Hamptons.
Whoopi Goldberg is back on a feature-film set, and her latest project places her at the centre of an impressive veteran ensemble. Netflix has confirmed that production is underway on Women Like Us, a new dramedy co-starring Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams and Vivica A. Fox.
The production update, accompanied by official on-set photographs, gives this Actor Spotlight a timely focus. Rather than relying solely on its headline-making cast, Women Like Us is building interest around a story of grief, friendship and women pursuing their dreams later in life.
A milestone trip to the Hamptons
Women Like Us follows a recently widowed woman whose lifelong friends and sister take her to the Hamptons on what would have been her 30th wedding anniversary. Netflix has not yet identified which member of the four-woman lead ensemble plays the widow, so Goldberg’s specific role remains undisclosed.
Goldberg, Lewis, Williams and Fox bring established audiences across film, television and theatre to the project. The supporting ensemble includes Greg Tarzan Davis, Melanie Liburd, Harry Lennix, Joy Bryant and Danielle Pinnock, among others.
Goldberg also discussed her filming schedule when she returned to The View on September 28, reinforcing that the project has moved beyond its earlier casting announcement and into active production.
Tasha Smith leads a notable creative team
Tasha Smith directs Women Like Us from a screenplay by Ali Kinney, with additional writing by Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. MACRO Film Studios and Higher Ground are producing, with Michelle Obama serving as an executive producer for Higher Ground and Charles D. King executive producing for MACRO Film Studios.
For Nollywood Spotlight readers, the project is worth following not only because of Goldberg’s return to a major ensemble feature, but also because it centres mature women in a friendship-driven story. That creative choice may resonate with African filmmakers and audiences interested in richer roles for experienced performers beyond conventional romantic leads.
What comes next for Women Like Us
No official trailer or teaser has been released, and the film remains in production. For now, Netflix’s set photographs and Goldberg’s filming update offer the clearest early look at a project built around four recognisable performers and a life-after-loss premise.
As production continues, the biggest questions will be how the roles are divided across the leading quartet and how Smith balances the story’s grief, humour and renewed ambition.
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