Love Quote by Blair Underwood

Underwood isn’t just pitching a movie; he’s staking a claim in a genre that’s historically treated Black romance as niche, secondary, or absent. Calling My Soul to Keep "the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman" is deliberate provocation: it pushes back against an entertainment default that reserves “ultimate” for sweeping, prestige romance centered on white couples. The phrasing is simple, almost blunt, because the argument shouldn’t need ornament. It’s a cultural correction delivered as a logline.

The "immortal" detail matters because it’s a sly way to talk about endurance without turning the project into a lecture. Immortality in romance usually codes as mythic, gothic, or escapist. Underwood uses it to elevate Black love into the realm of epic fantasy and timeless devotion - categories that have often exoticized Blackness or excluded it altogether. The subtext: Black relationships can carry the same grand-scale stakes and cinematic inevitability that pop culture has long granted others.

Then he drops the real-world ballast: "six year development". That’s both a badge of persistence and a quiet indictment of the industry’s inertia. Projects like this don’t just "take time"; they get stalled by cautious financing, risk-averse gatekeepers, and the lazy assumption that Black-led romance has limited audience appeal. The mention of a Fall shoot reads like a hard-won countdown, a promise that the fantasy is finally crossing into production reality.