Actor Emilio Evans, co-star of the TV series Makeup x Breakup will return to the screen starting July 6 when the half-hour drama premieres its second season on the popular streaming platform Allblk.tv (All Black TV).

Set in New York City, Makeup x Breakup is written and directed by series creator Eric Dickens and follows the complicated romantic relationships of a group of young African American friends with their present and former lovers.

The ensemble cast also features Nicolette Ellis, Omar Salmon, Kamel Goffin, Olivia Gray, Karmie Berry, and Sean Dominic.

Evans, a Harlem-based actor of Jamaican parentage, plays the role of Bryce Grove, a marketing executive who, as Evans puts it, “Has gone through hardships in his life that have moulded him into the man he has become. He can be pretty naïve and aloof in his approach to and relationships with women, and consequently things don’t always go well for him in his dating world.”

The actor is proud of the years-long journey the series has taken before arriving at its new home on Allblk.tv, which is a subsidiary of parent company AMC Networks.

Responding to an open casting call back in 2016, his audition led to him becoming an original cast member when the show premièred later that year on YouTube as a series of 10-minute episodes.

The huge popularity of the series led to a pickup by BET for their online streaming platform for several years and then, ultimately, a new home at Allblk.tv as of 2022.

“All of our past episodes are now available on Allblk.tv and presented as our official season one,” Evans explains, “So new viewers now have a chance to catch up on whatever they missed, before our season two première arrives on July 6.”

Evans, who studied theatre at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), intends to establish his own production company. He hopes to write, produce, and appear in content that will create more opportunities for artistes of colour and bring his Jamaican roots fully to the fore.

“My mother is from Tivoli Gardens and my father is from Portland,” he said. “They immigrated here quite young, so I was born in New York and raised mostly in the deeply Jamaican part of the Bronx. But am still very close to my large family back in Jamaica…”

The actor said he proud of his Jamaican heritage and wishes to see better representation on the screen.

“I’ve never cared for how we’ve been portrayed in the media. It’s usually some forced accent and mannerisms that I feel come off as inauthentic more than anything. We haven’t truly tapped the full potential of Jamaicans and Jamaican stories on TV or film in an interesting way just yet. I’m definitely hoping to change that, though.”

For season two, Evans said: “Audiences can expect to see some really great storytelling with people of colour as the focus, and that’s very exciting for me, based on what my own plans are for the future.”

In addition to Makeup x Breakup, Evans has also appeared on Power: Book Two and Law and Order: Organized Crime. On stage he was last seen in BREAKZ at the Nimbus Arts Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.