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Sade Oyinade and Deshawn Plair Exclusive Interview about For the Love of Jason

Sade Oyinade and Deshawn Plair are a dynamic duo producing, writing and directing shows, short films and more! Their job has its ups and downs but through it all they have fun and enjoy seeing their passion being presented to the world. Oyinade and Plair have been working together over a few years and their chemistry is phenomenal. They are producing partners and have collaborated on multiple projects together working with ALL BLK, BET, BET Her TV, Showtime and started their own company called Flower Ave. Films.

For the Love of Jason series is produced by Oyinade and Plair. Also, Plair is one of the directors of the series. For the Love of Jason is currently on the second and it is about dating and relationships from a male’s perspective. “ A lot of times shows are female centered but for this series the majority of our cast is three males and then there is one female that’s in the friend group. It’s about dating, love relationships and all of the above from a male’s perspective, infused with mental health because the main character is Jason, he is in therapy and the therapist is played by Tabitha brown” Deshawn said. Oyinade and Plair both love working with everybody and feel that each person brings their own fun energy. “We all have just a good time working together. Everybody comes in, really serious about the material trying to give their best to everything. And then we have our little fun moments behind the scenes” said Sade Oyinade.

Q: What are your best moments of For the Love of Jason?

A: Deshawn Plair: I would say the best moment for me happened in the second season. I got to direct the season finale episode. There’s a few scenes in particular, but I’ll pick out one, so it’s a dinner table scene and all of the cast is there along with some other so it’s like 10 people at a table and just let’s just say a lot happens at that table. Like it’s hilarious and it’s serious. You are like, What in the world just happened? So it’s definitely entertaining, popcorn worthy and juicy.I had a lot of fun. Directing these crazy people. Sade Oyinade: One of my favorite moments, actually any scene that Marva is in. Episode four or just my favorite because she is hilarious and we write with her in mind and what kind of crazy things she’s going to do. But no matter how crazy you might write something, she’s gonna take it way further. Marva who is Jason’s next door neighbor will be reappearing and he’s hilarious. The actress who plays her is hilarious, it’s like almost nothing he won’t do. She is totally unequipped. She will take it to whatever you guys will let her take it to and run with it. I love working with her and I love seeing her whole process, so people are gonna get some good laughs in these next episodes that she is in.

Q: What are some of the best projects you have collaborated on?

A: Deshawn Plair- I’m a little biased. I love them all. I will say First Day Back. I really loved that process but honestly all of our projects were good. I feel like the project where I learned a lot about myself was the Yemi Dilemma. I learned a lot about myself working on all of them. And I learned a lot about Nigerian culture and just everything like that. So that’s what I would say at the start of it, but then I think I’m a little biased. And then, of course, For the Love of Jason. We really learned a lot about ourselves as leaders, because we have a larger group. I think it was the largest crew that we kind of had been in charge of, for this project. So you learn a lot working with more people. Sade Oyinade- I would argue I’m safer to stay First Day Back as well because we got to work with Loretta Devine and Aisha Hines and so many other amazing people. It was a really a really great project, as far as the impact and meaning of everything. It’s an issue that’s still going on right now with regards to gun control and guns in schools and nobody really has the answers. So it was a project that kind of was a provoking conversation, but also For the Love of Jason. Being able to see your work on a larger platform, and to see the response from people hearing the response from other people. It’s been really a great experience. I think all those projects I would say, and some of the best.