Resort to Love: how I got to help represent my island in Netflix’ upcoming flick

Sherry-Lynn Lee
5 min readJul 26, 2021

June 2020. Long before the film even had the vague title “Untitled Alicia Keys Project”, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius was abuzz. Rumor had it that Netflix was flying an entire crew to shoot a film on the COVID-free island. It didn’t take long for the hype to reach my feed in Los Angeles.

Sherry-Lynn Lee

LA-based writer, artist, producer who used to be a Silicon Valley engineer. Mauritian, Canadian. www.23rdhr.com