'When They See Us' puts the Central Park 5 squarely in the sights of young actor Jharrel Jerome, who earned an Emmy nomination for playing Korey Wise.
Jharrel Jerome was born in 1997, about eight years after the Central Park Five made headlines. But “something went off in my head — it was like a bell that rang,” says Jerome when, in 2017, he spotted director Ava DuVernay’s Instagram post about her plan to write and direct a limited series about the true story of teenagers wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the assault and rape of a female jogger in Central Park.
Recently, in a West Hollywood dressing room, Jerome spoke to The Envelope about being the only actor to play his “WTSU” character in two timelines, hanging out with his real-life counterpart, and discovering that there’s such a thing as too much steak.I was doing another project and [I had a beard] when I auditioned via self-tape. [Ava] liked the tape but her note back was, “Can he do it with no [facial hair]?” So we went to production. They said, “No.
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