The Hollywood Reporter shares an exclusive audiobook excerpt of the actor's middle-grade debut and talks with Cho about tackling racial justice, policing, guns and the ways children navigate a world of unrest.
He’d selected an episode detailing the night former President Donald Trump posed with a Bible for a “photo op” in front of the St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. To get the picture, U.S. Park Police deployed rubber bullets, shields and chemical irritants like pepper spray, forcefully removing protestors from nearby Lafayette Park.
The first-hand account described people huddled, washing each other’s eyes out with milk and water in the home of someone who had opened their doors as a refuge. As he was listening, Cho started to have a panic attack. “These are things thousands of miles away, you know, and I wasn’t there, but these events do enter your heart in a way that’s difficult to predict,” he tells. “I had to turn it off. I couldn’t breathe. I sort of fell to my knee. It was crazy.
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