Whether it is Hollywood or wood, Angel Reese is including pages to her resume. After the Defensive Player of the Year award, FIBA gold medal and her very first WNBA Finals look, the Atlanta Dream has actually included another stop to her acting gig, and it was directly out of the dream world.
View What’s Trending Now!
On Thursday, the three-time WNBA All-Star brought up at the best of Netflix’s ‘The Hunting Wives’ Season 2 as one of the cast members. Reese used a floral-print midi gown and positioned for photos before signing up with the cast of the program.
“An Angel has actually been identified at the Hunting Wives best,” a Strong Black Lead post kept reading Instagram.
The Dream star manifested a function for herself in the program simply in 2015 in August. Reese had actually just recently completed enjoying Season 1 of the program, and quickly after ending up, she required to X to applaud the program.
“Nglllll The Hunting Wives is a CRAZYYYY however excellent watch,” she composed.
Quickly after, Reese’s tweet was met an action from series developer Rebecca Cutter.
“I am dead on the flooring!!! Thank you for enjoying our lil ol program,” Cutter reacted.
“Just let me understand if you require me for season 2,” Reese responded.
Reese plays a character called Trainer Barbie. It appears to use her labels on the wood. From Bayou Barbie in college and Chi Barbie in Chicago to ATL Barbie in Atlanta, Reese’s renowned label has actually stayed with her.
There is no clearness on the Dream star’s screen time, however Netflix has actually explained her in a “co-starring function.”
“The Hunting Wives” very first aired in July 2025. It follows Sophie O’Neil, who moves from Massachusetts to East Texas for a new beginning, however rapidly discovers her life gets caught in an unsafe web of tricks and fascination. The program starring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman turned into one of the most-watched programs on Netflix after its release. The thriller series is based upon May Cobb’s bestselling unique by the very same name.
This is not the very first time that Reese has actually appeared in a Netflix item. Simply in 2015, she appeared in “A House of Dynamite,” a political thriller starring Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson. Reese had a cameo look. Unlike her cameo in A House of Dynamite, Reese’s Hunting Wives function is a co-starring part, marking a considerable action up in her acting trajectory
After her Hollywood launching, Reese promised to take acting seriously and employ an acting coach.
“I wish to get an acting coach,” she informed People in September 2025 at the movie’s best at the New York Film Festival. “I was talking with Common– he’s overseas today shooting season 2 of Silo– and he was informing me, ‘You got to work with an acting coach.'”
Performing is simply another stint that Angel Reese takes extremely seriously aside from modeling, and it appears that this wasn’t the very first time that her dream had actually come to life. A year before Reese strolled on Victoria’s Secret runway, she had actually published on her social networks that she wished to stroll for the underwear brand name. In Oct. 2025, the Dream star was on the underwear brand name’s runway in New York, doing her dream walk.
“I’m simply actually pleased to understand that when I talk to my tongue, I understand things are going to take place,” Reese informed E! News. “Not at the time that I desire all the time, however at God’s time and this is my minute, and this is my time, and I’m gon na accept it.”
This is no self-centered undertaking of the WNBA star. She has actually long kept that she wished to reveal little women that they do not need to restrict themselves to one box. Her Victoria’s Secret walk was for ladies who appeared like her.
“I’m not simply doing this for me,” she included. “I’m doing it for everybody who appears like me. And understand that you can be anybody you wish to remain in this world. Individuals are going to inform you ‘no.’ You’re going to get a thousand ‘no’s, however that a person ‘yes’ is going to get you in the door and let you be whoever you wish to be.”
When Reese debuted in Hollywood, individuals slammed her, with some declaring she was moving her focus far from basketball which the video game wasn’t her concern. A year later on, Reese has actually shown she can not just do numerous things at a time, however even take her video game to the next level.
She won her very first significant specific award as WNBA DPOY, won a gold medal at the FIBA World Cup and led her group to the WNBA Finals. Reese had a hard time in the last 4 video games of the series, however she showed that she has the capability to will herself to do anything. She had actually pledged to come back once again, and the challengers and skeptics must take her pledge seriously.
Discover more from PMN S.P.O.R.T.S - A PRIME MEDIA NETWORK BRAND
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
