Girl 6 is the story of an uncommitted actress. She can’t commit to the auditions her manager sends her on, she can’t commit to the scenes her acting coach gives her, she can’t commit to her husband. The film opens with all three of these relationships at their ends.
So what’s a girl to do? Can’t pay her agent, can’t pay her acting coach, but she’s got to pay her rent. Phone sex work. Of course. She’s an actress, and from the comfort of a mid 90s cubicle, she’s acting all day long.
The girl in question learns to play roles on the phone the way she never could on film or even on the stage. She falls in love with fiction, but slowly. It disarms her. Friends and coworkers alike warn her of how they see this affair with fantasy is starting to look…wrong. But, like many women in abusive relationships, she struggles to see the red flags until they’re close enough to smother her.
For Girl 6 Spike Lee called in favors across the board. Practically everyone in this movie is someone. From Naomi Campbell to Richard Belzer, from Quentin Tarantino to Madonna. And the entire soundtrack? Prince!