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First Lady Of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story Explores
The Power Dynamic In Relationships, Drug Addiction, And Domestic Violence,
While Running A Criminal Empire
Leon, Jessica "Jess Hilarious" Moore, Kellie
Williams, And Newcomer Faith Malonte Give Stellar Performances As The Family,
Lovers,
In the
zeitgeist, Bonnie and Clyde are the archetype for a power couple. What
made these lovebirds so notorious and deadly wasn’t Clyde, it was Bonnie, a
dynamic woman as a willing co-conspirator. Tonesa Welch, played
by Michelle Mitchenor (“First
Wives Club”), dubbed by federal prosecutors as “The First Lady of
BMF,” is more than willing, she’s cunning and capable.
First Lady Of BMF: Tonesa Welch Story, premiering Thursday, October 5 on BET+, answers a lot of burning questions about Welch and the true rise of the infamous drug cartel known as the Black Mafia Family. However, Welch’s story also raises a very timely and important question: Do powerful men, or men in general, truly want powerful women?
First Lady Of BMF
In her feature film directorial debut, Vivica A. Fox pulls powerful performances from Mitchenor and her co-lead Tobias Truvillion (“Best Man: The Final Chapter”), to show the complexities of living in and leaving a toxic relationship, all while building a criminal empire.
After a quick courtship, Tonesa and H become a modern day Bonnie and Clyde until the relationship turns more like Celie and Mister from The Color Purple. At first a willing teacher and mentor, soon H becomes insecure and violent. Eventually, his abusive nature drives Tonesa into the waiting arms of Terry Flenory or Southwest T, played by newcomer Faith Malonte (Power & Money). Leon (“City On A Hill”) plays a stern midwestern stepfather married to Tonesa’s loving, doting and enabling mother played by Kellie Williams (A Family
Matters
Christmas). Together they struggle to raise an overly entitled
daughter while caring for her children, their
grandchildren. Comedians Jessica “Jess Hilarious” Moore and Daphnique
Springs (The Matchmaker) get serious for their roles as
Tonesa’s ride-or-die Detroit homegirls, rounding out this strong
multigenerational cast.
Like the irony in every Shakespearean tragedy, while Tonesa is on the rise to wealth and power she is simultaneously at times a drug-addicted and often battered wife. Hers is a typical toxic love story laced with bad decisions compounded by poor choices that eventually leads to a tragic downfall, ensnaring her sons and family members in an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
Filmed in the Washington, D.C. area, First Lady Of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story is executive produced by Tressa Azarel Smallwood (who also serves as co-writer) and Judge Greg Mathis for MegaMind Media. It is the ninth feature film produced by MegaMind Media to be filmed in the Washington, D.C. / Maryland / Virginia area, affectionately known as "The DMV."
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