It was a breezy seven minute walk from his high school to the entrance near Manhattan’s storied Tavern on the Green.He was a teenager who cared about basketball and the perfect dis to sling at his friends in rap battles. He was decades removed from a notorious 1989 case in which five black and Latino teenagers were wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for raping and nearly killing Trisha Meili, a white woman who had been jogging in Central Park. But he could have been one of them.
Wise wasn’t a suspect, but he had been with his friend Salaam when police took in Salaam for questioning. Wise accompanied his friend to the precinct for support and wound up being charged. At 16, he became the only defendant sentenced as an adult. He was convicted of assault, sexual abuse and riot, and sent to Rikers Island with a five to 15 year sentence.
“He’s my brother now,” Jerome says of Wise. “I look up to him. I look up to his courage. He’s taught me so much on how to be strong.” “The human things,” she said by phone. “The care that he gave to the parts that were more quiet, the moments that another actor might have glossed over. He knew the little stuff is the big stuff.”
But by his freshman year at Ithaca College, he landed a gig that would not only get him out of his dorm room for 12 days but would kick-start his career: “Moonlight.” The Barry Jenkins film revolved around a young black boy grappling with his sexuality while growing up in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. Jerome played Kevin, a bisexual teenager who strikes a bond with the film’s central character, Chiron.
GustavoArellano Think the world will now definitely see him the same way it sees RealChalamet for sure. Thunderous talent.
I mean, he just won an Emmy, so...
ava Well deserved
ava This was The Most Deserved Emmy EVER. I am beyond thrilled they got this 100 percent correct. I CANNOT wait to see what he does forever. 💜
ava They will rush. It’s happening.
ava I said it after Moonlight that his talent is undeniable. His performance in When They See Us was the only thing in TV or film this past year that made me break down and cry. I want the world to say his name when they say the name of those other two talented actors.
ava ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨well deserved 🙏🏾
ava THE TRUTH
ava Ava is EXHAUSTING
ava 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
ava We'll pray. He is on the level of the two men you've mentioned above. I'm a big fan of all 3 of these men. I hope Jharrel Jerome can continue to showcase his brilliant talent.
ava Moonlight won Best Picture!
ava Jovenel Moïse Doesn't représent haïtien people
ava Amen.
He was brilliant
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