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Interview with Justice Smith of "The Get Down"

posted 8 years ago by activista
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Finally found an interview with one of the stars of THE GET DOWN---Justice Smith, who plays Zeke Figeroa (the cute one with the big Afro who spits mad rhymes) and it's one hell of a philosophical and thoughtful interview---really enjoyed reading this. Smith talks about how he worked on putting his character together, being a black bi-racial actor and how that directly affects the type of roles he gets; plus dealing with racism in high school, and in regular everyday life:

http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/justice-smith-conversation.html

[–] activista 8 years ago

Also, here's another interview with the Grandmaster Flash himself about the show and his involvement in it:

http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/grandmaster-flash-explains-what-the-get-down-is.html

[–] shakland 8 years ago

This is an excellent interview. Thank you for sharing.

[–] activista 8 years ago

You're welcome! I'm gonna try and share whatever I come across about the show, because I do feel that it's being kind of slept on in some ways. Here's another review of it I found which gives brief spoilers for the first three episode, but nothing really major:

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/14/12455902/the-get-down-review-netflix-shaolin-zeke

[–] activista 8 years ago

Here's a thorough article about how THE GET DOWN series finally got off the ground---it was a long difficult, nearly four-year process:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/features/the-get-down-netflix-baz-luhrmann-production-troubles-1201822679/