Ayo Edebiri, the breakout star of The Bear, will now be seen in Abbott Elementary.According to Variety, a US-based media house, Ayo will be seen as Ayesha Teagues, Janine's infamous sister in the show. Throughout the series, Janine mentions having a troubled connection with Ayesha, who will make her first appearance through FaceTime in the February 8 episode Valentine's Day before returning for a major storyline later in Season 2. Ayo recently joined Marvel Studios anti-hero team-up film Thunderbolts in an unspecified capacity. The film is directed by Jake Schreier (Paper Towns, Robot and Frank) from a script by Eric Pearson (Black Widow). Kevin Feige is producing, as he is with every Marvel Studios production. At the San Diego Comic-Con, Feige confirmed Thunderbolts for 2022 as the culmination of Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which begins in February with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania). It is currently scheduled to debut on July 26, 2024. Golden Globe Awards 2023: Abbott Elementary Star Tyler James Williams Wins Award for Best Supporting Actor in Musical or Comedy Series.

According to Variety, Thunderbolts will bring together several anti-heroes from the MCU, including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) from Black Widow, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Ghost from Ant-Man and the Wasp (Hannah John-Kamen). Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Falcon and Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, will command the crew. Thunderbolts: Ayo Edebiri Joins the Cast of Julia Louis-Dreyfus Starrer.

Louis-Dreyfus told Variety that Thunderbolts will begin filming in June.(Though Harrison Ford is planned to play the film's namesake, Thunderbolt Ross, replacing the late William Hurt, the character is rumoured to appear in Captain America: New World Order, which is set to premiere two months before Thunderbolts, in May 2024.) Talking about Ayo Edebiri, since FX's The Bear aired on Hulu in June 2022, her career has been on fire. She co-stars with Ben Platt in the movie Theater Camp, which premiered at Sundance and was quickly snatched up by Searchlight, and she'll next be seen in the LGBTQ coming-of-age comedy Bottoms, which will be available on Amazon Prime Video later this year.