As she marks the 20-year anniversary of her debut album There’s Something About Remy, two-time Grammy-nominated and two-time BET Award-winning artist Remy Ma is expanding her work into a wider range of television, film, and storytelling projects. The first of these is the Lifetime psychological thriller Don’t Trust the Girls Upstairs, which premieres Saturday, June 20 at 8/7c. The film is based on the bestselling novel My Sister’s Daughter by Liv Constantine.
In the movie, Remy Ma plays Ashley Preston, a woman whose life is disrupted when she and her husband Elliot (Garfield Wilson) take in her orphaned teenage niece Serena (Aliyah Marc) after the sudden death of Ashley’s estranged sister. What starts as a gesture of support soon leads to escalating strange incidents at home, growing tensions between Serena and Ashley’s daughter Luna (Sasha Rojen), and a climate of paranoia and distrust. Ashley must confront buried secrets and uncover the truth before the situation inside her own household becomes dangerous. The role represents another significant on-screen performance for Remy Ma as she continues to build her presence in acting. “Working with Lifetime again has been an incredible experience,” she said. “Ashley is a woman who would do anything to protect her family, but everybody in that house is hiding something. She’s carrying grief, trauma, and pain she’s never fully dealt with, and that made this role feel very real to me. This role challenged me emotionally in ways I didn’t expect.” Don’t Trust the Girls Upstairs is directed by David Weaver from a script by Crystal Verge, and produced by Navid Soofi for Studio TF1 America in association with Rohm Feifer Entertainment, with executive producers Kara Feifer, Elisabeth Rohm, Timothy O. Johnson, and Meghan Hooper White.