{"id":563819,"date":"2026-07-28T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563819\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:42:10","slug":"the-pitts-shabana-azeez-to-star-in-unrequited-romance-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563819\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Pitt&#8217;s Shabana Azeez To Star In &#8216;Unrequited&#8217; Romance (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shabana-azeez\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shabana-azeez\" data-tag=\"shabana-azeez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shabana Azeez<\/a>, one of the stars of HBO\u2019s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama\u00a0The Pitt, has signed on for a return to her indie roots with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/unrequited\/\" id=\"auto-tag_unrequited\" data-tag=\"unrequited\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrequited<\/a>, a romance marking the directorial debut of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lynn-q-yu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lynn-q-yu\" data-tag=\"lynn-q-yu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Q. Yu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on an original script by Yu,\u00a0Unrequited\u00a0centers around two former college roommates, Trish and Anjali. When Trish learns that her best friend and once-lover Anjali (Azeez) is leaving the U.S. to return home to India, she takes her on a goodbye roadtrip to explore the diverse cuisines of California and convince Anjali to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducers on\u00a0Unrequited\u00a0include Jake Casey (Hallowarrior) and Danielle Benedict (Heightened Scrutiny) of The Dazey Phase, plus John Gray of\u00a0It\u2019s Not Pork. Rich Freeman and Rick Berg are exec producing for Code Entertainment (The Mongoose), with production to kick off in California next spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYu is perhaps best known for the K-pop thriller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/perfect-girl-adeline-rudolph-arden-cho-k-pop-thriller-1236270588\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Girl<\/a>, an adaptation of her 2023 Black List script\u00a0Unnie, which filmed in Thailand late last year and is expected to release in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe told Deadline, \u201cShabana is a tremendous talent. We\u2019re so thrilled to be working with such an exciting actor of her generation, someone who really embodies the ethos and spirit of the script. Audiences are going to get to see Shabana in a way they haven\u2019t seen her before, in a role that is by turns funny and sexy and charming as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn\u00a0The Pitt, HBO\u2019s series examining the dramatic day-to-day in the emergency department at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, Azeez plays Dr. Victoria Javadi. Previously, the Australian actress has also appeared opposite\u00a0Succession\u2018s Sarah Snook in the Netflix thriller\u00a0Run Rabbit Run. Among her other upcoming projects is the drama\u00a0The Airport Chaplain\u00a0for Australia\u2019s SBS. She is repped by Stride Management, CP Artist Management, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Shabana Azeez, one of the stars of HBO\u2019s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama\u00a0The Pitt, has signed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,255429,170179,255430],"class_list":["post-563819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lynn-q-yu","tag-shabana-azeez","tag-unrequited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}