EXCLUSIVE: 'Juice' Star Khalil Kain Added to Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' Movie

Black Voices has exclusively learned that Khalil Kain, best known for his role in the 1992 hip-hop film 'Juice,' has been cast in Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.'
According to our sources, Kain's character will be paired with Tony Award-winning 'Princess and the Frog' star Anika Noni Rose.
The 45-year-old New York native, who recently got some shine as Darnell in the popular TV series 'Girlfriends,' joins Omari Hardwick, Isaiah Mustafa and Richard Lawson as the men in the film.
Other actors will be named at a later date.
Based on Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play, 'Colored Girls' is scheduled to shoot in June in New York with a possible late-2010 release.
The riveting play, consisting of a series of poems performed through a cast of nameless women known only by a color,- deal with such subjects as love, abandonment, rape and abortion. The play garnered much acclaim, becoming the toast of Broadway when it opened at the Booth Theater in 1976.
Already cast in the movie are Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine and Macy Gray.
Kain made his feature-film debut playing opposite rapper Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps in Ernest Dickerson's 'Juice,' which is considered a hip-hop classic.
He then appeared in numerous TV shows, including 'Girlfriends.' He also appeared in an episode of 'The Ghost Whisperer' and on the series 'Medium.'
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