“It was definitely the most difficult process I’ve ever had getting into the mindset for a role. This was real life; he really went through this. And here I am playing somebody who has never been seen — like, really seen — before.” - Jharrel Jerome
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.
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