Boots Riley has shared his clear stance on making the second season of his 2023 Prime Video series I’m a Virgo.
The 55-year-old American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and filmmaker gave an interview to ScreenRant, where he was asked if he is planning to make the second of I’m a Virgo, to which he bluntly replied with one word, “nope.”
Riley laughingly said, “The second season happens in your imagination. I think we watch TV too much. So, you tell me what happens.”
He then explained, “It’s hard to explain why, but we ended up having to cut 40% of the script. There was a whole penultimate episode that got cut out. There was another 20 minutes after that end that cuts out, and then there was stuff, like he actually did do all this sports stuff. There was more Lower Bottoms folks, there was more of that.”
When asked if the first season faced budget-related issues, the Fremont actor quipped that he “would have got them to give me the money” if his frequent collaborator LaKeith Stanfield was not busy filming the 2023 Disney film Haunted Mansion.
“But the point is, then they kept being like, ‘We’ll just put it on the second season.’ So, that’s why it feels like it needs a second season. But then when we sat down, I was like, ‘It just doesn’t feel right to do a whole second season because of things that really only work in the context of all that stuff,’” Riley stated by recalling.
It is pertinent to mention that I’m a Virgo, an American surreal comedy miniseries, starred Jharrel Jerome as Cootie, “a 13-foot-tall man who escapes to experience the beauty and contradictions of the real world. He forms friendships, finds love, navigates awkward situations, and encounters his idol, The Hero.”
