Congrats to Diggy Simmons and Teyana Taylor who both will star in an upcoming BET movie.  BET says yes to the “Diggy Simmons Project”, a two-hour backdoor comedy pilot/original movie starring 17-year-old rapper/blogger Daniel Dwayne Simmons, aka Diggy Simmons.

Simmons will play the main character Blake. Also cast in the project are Allen Maldonado as Manny, Blake’s best friend. Manny lives with his twin sister Tae (Teyana Taylor), who is Blake’s ex-girlfriend, after their grandmother died. Chris Brew will play Dot, a tech geek, now a student at NYU, and a childhood friend of Blake and Manny. Bria Murphy will play Manny’s girlfriend Nia. Stephanie Charles will play Sheri, Dot’s ex-girlfriend.

It will be executive produced by Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, the team behind BET’s hit comedy The Game.

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