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Meagan Good - Death Saved My Life - TV Film
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Meagan Good - Death Saved My Life
Meagan Good Delivers Her Most Nail Biting Performance Yet In The Suspense Thriller
“ Death Saved My Life.”
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| Ed (Okonkwo) & Jade (Good) |
The Lifetime Network will be airing “Death Saved My Life,” Saturday, February 13, 2021. Consult your listings for airtime in your area. It is part of Lifetimes high rated “Ripped From The Headlines.” Series. The movie is a suspense thriller that centers on two heavy topics with witch the public generally treads very lightly, i.e., mental health and domestic violence. The movie stars veteran Hollywood actress Meagan Good who portrays Jade, a housewife with a successful marketing career, a husband Ed, played by Chike Okonkwo who is the top heart surgeon at his hospital, and a loving daughter.
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| Jade hides from family who thinks she is dead |
There is a term called “pseudocide” where a person fakes their own death. Jade (Good) is in a psychological and physically abusive relationship with her jealous, control freak husband Ed and finds it extremely difficult to seek help because of her mental health background. Ed holds the fact over her head that she had a nervous breakdown (due to the death of a parent) as proof that she is not mentally reliable to accuse him of any misconduct. As a result, she fakes her death to get away.
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| Desperate Ed looking for Jade |
On a lighter note, Meagan’s real life sister LaMiya Good plays her on screen sister Leigh in the movie.
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| L-R Leigh (LiMiya) and Jade (Meagan) | |
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| L-R Meagan & LiMiya The Good Sisters |
Actor Chike Okonkwo is very realistic and extremely convincing in his role as a controlling, abusive all around master dirtball jerk.
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| Abusive narcissist Ed (Okonkwo) |
He understands why the viewers (especially the female ones) will hate him but he’s OK with that because it means that he did his job exceptionally well as an actor. Okonkwo explains, “For me, I just wanted to lean into the truth of it. I spoke with a clinical psychiatrist beforehand particularly on what it means to be an abusive narcissist and that it can be very controlling and sometimes overtly loving but mostly very, very violent, and dark. It’s a tough space to be in, but as an actor it’s a really big challenge. And then I felt that we were in really good company and it was lovely to lead into to this and be truthful with it. And as soon as cut was called, I would make sure that Meagan was OK because it wasn’t nice having to put her through that time after time.”
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| Jade (Good) having breakfast faking happiness |
In terms of the movie’s subject matter of domestic violence and mental illness Good stresses, “I think it’s something that we don’t talk enough about and we don’t have enough dialog around especially in the Black Community. I’m hoping that many people who see this that could be in a situation like this, that it empowers them to know this is where you may be right now but there is a whole other life that you haven’t even dreamed of that is waiting for you, that is possible for you if you just step out on faith and trust God to get beyond the situation that you are in.”
The movie is produced by Jarrett Creative. Executive producers are Julie Insogna Jarrett, Seth Jarrett and Meagan Good. Seth Jarrett directs from a script written by Barbara Kymlicka. The film will air as part of Lifetime’s popular Ripped from the Headlines slate.
Photos Courtesy Lifetime
