success of her movie “Girls Trip.”“It was a pretty astronomical change [to my life]. After ‘Girls Trip’ came out. Suddenly I could take out this show and sell it,” Oliver told The Post.“The [‘Harlem] script was written two years prior to ‘Girls Trip’ and there was no example of a black female friendship [shows or movies] working out like that.
So, people were like, ‘I think it’s niche, I don’t think there’s a big audience for it.’ After ‘Girls Trip,’ it became easier to tell people, ‘There’s an audience for this stuff.
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