Can you talk about that process? We just don't know the good side. While I hope everyone has gotten a chance to watch Ava DuVernay's powerful miniseries on the Central Park Five, When They See Us, I can understand if you haven't. The fallout was immediate ... from her resignation on several boards to her publisher giving her the boot. I grew up in the Bronx, so this story was among dozens of other stories that were taught as life lessons to me by my parents, in terms of when you see the police be polite, don't be out in the streets late, come home before dark. Is that something he just doesn't talk about? Unlike the others who were placed in juvenile centers in New York, Wise was sent to Rikers Island to serve his sentence. But I've been rapping before I was acting, bro. Three other exonerees -- Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson -- joined the after-party bash, kicking it with Jharrel and, of course, the Emmy statuette. Aside from Ken Burns' 2012 documentary—which was mostly just a timeline of the historical facts surrounding the attack, the case and the eventual 2002 exoneration of the Central Park Five—no one has actually heard the men's side of the story since their lives were cataclysmically changed in 1989. That put everything into perspective for me about the kind of man he is. She masterfully gave us that pain and that heartbreak. To me, it's about the fact that when I'm 80 years old, I want to look at the catalog of my work and say "yeah, I led with purpose and I did my thing, and I did it for my family, I didn't it for me, and I made who I love proud." We shoot texts to each other. Petitions Against Linda Fairstein Pile Up After 'When They See Us' Release, Watch the Official Trailer for Ava DuVernay's Central Park Five Netflix Series 'When They See Us', The Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2019. I'm going to try to do it through music. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Stay grounded. We'll hop on the phone a couple of times. I'd been reading about you talking about spending time with Korey, but I was surprised to read that you didn't really get a lot of first-hand word from Korey about his time in incarceration. It's all out in the world. He's loud. Then, it wasn't until this acting platform started to build where I realized that my passion for music can be turned into a career if I did it right. The fact that a year ago I was hopping on the train in the Bronx, and now today I feel like the next time I'm on that train some people might be looking at me. It's such a win-or-lose game as opposed to acting, where you kind of have your chance to redeem yourself more as an artist, and you're doing projects that you didn't write yourself. You're jumping into someone else's idea. We need shows like this to continue on because I think—especially with my generation—all we're watching is the next show on Netflix. It's the first time in my life I felt like an adult, like I could really use a break. He wants me to come over, have dinner, and have a nice little housewarming thing. All we listen to is the next album that drops. I went to an incredible performing arts school that taught you everything you needed to know to throw you into a career at such a young age. He's all about that, and that's who he is today. Being in that cell just twiddling my thumbs and looking at trying to find things to do. Wise's concern for his buddy drove him to accompany Salaam anyway. Just talking to people in the last week about the series, a lot of people are like, "I watched Part One, and I had to take a break," and I'm like I get it, but I'm like "wait until you get to Part Four." I think art imitates life. Yeah. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, Download the TMZ App on the Apple App Store, Download the TMZ App on the Google Play Store. With music, that's all your own idea. I feel like you're still up there right now. I still see 16-year-old Korey inside of him. I went through the endless, endless hours of media coverage where they're calling them animals and monsters. The project focuses on the five teenagers from Harlem: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. An extraordinary work of art, heart crushing, infuriating story to witness & @ava gives voice & humanity to 5 men who as children, were given neither. It's a thing that people don't know. He's still back in the '90s, man. Get TMZ breaking news sent right to your browser! I am okay, and I'm not in this situation. The incessant media coverage painted the boys as monsters. I'm going to read the words. There are so many actors. Korey was the oldest of the accused at 16. But the project still hasn't left me. It's crazy because I want to hop in a time machine and try to go back in time to when I was a child because I know that this story had to have been told in my household at some point, or may have been brought up, but I was just too young to understand. There were days I couldn't sleep. I've never really gone on vacation in my life, so I treated myself to one and got some rest. It was unreal. Are there any film or TV projects that you have coming up that people can be looking out for? That was definitely the biggest challenge. It's in our head. If I wanted to think about what he went through in the prison cell, I went through the script. No matter what, I am safe. Email Or Call (888) 847-9869. Art is medicine. When you're speaking to Korey, you have to have your ears wide open the whole time and you have to listen. I hope it inspires people to get involved in their community, whether it's the smallest or largest way, just get involved. Whenever they were switching cameras, whenever they went off to lunch and taking a break, I just tried my best to either stay in the cafeteria or stay in the cell, and figure out what it's like to really be in a cell. I'm having a hard time talking about it right now because I still haven't even fully understood it or grasped it. He was so loud, everybody turned. After watching Part Four [of When They See Us], I was like "I need to talk to this man." I learned all these different types of acting, and one of them is method acting. Jharrel Jerome talks his enlightening experience playing Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries on the Central Park Five, 'When They See Us.' Coming up in the Bronx, were you familiar with this case growing up? Jharrel Jerome plays Korey Wise, the eldest of the five and the only one who was convicted as an adult. You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. It's hard to escape pangs of heartbreak while watching each member of the Central Park Five's story unravel on the small screen. It's still a whole team of people with cameras and lights around you in this world. I'm not taking it and turning it into an ego trip. There were days I couldn't eat just thinking about the fact that Korey must've not been able to eat. Because she hadn't heard my version of Korey yet, so she was like, "Are you okay? For the latter, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Sorry." “I … He's all bright. But it was also my therapy. I'm into clothes and I'm into fashion. I didn't know about it until Ava brought it into my life. They were all convicted for the crime. This is where I'm from. To continue reading login or create an account. Bottom line is Ava pretty much brought [it] to my attention. I'm so grateful for it because there were a lot of kids like me, my age especially, on my block, my homies themselves who if I'd mentioned Central Park Five, they'll kind of be like, "Yeah, I think I heard of that." Antron served 7 1/2 years behind bars before he was freed. I decided to continue to do it because I needed that pain and that heartbreak because that pain and heartbreak is just a fraction—not even a fraction—of what Korey went through. The second I met him, he took his chain off and put it around my neck, and he said, "You're Korey Wise now." For me, I couldn't find the courage or I didn't know how to say "what happened during this year" or "how did this feel," especially because his story is so different from the others. Those who made it through the four-part Netflix series were rewarded with a powerful performance from Jharrel Jerome, the 21-year-old Bronx native who was brought to the lives of many through Barry Jenkins' Academy Award-winning Moonlight. BTW ... Antron was forced to sign a false confession by his father. It's not something that I want to dive into entirely, especially because it can cause some danger, and in the past it has caused danger. Jharrel Jerome won an Emmy for best lead actor in a limited series for his portrayal of Korey Wise who was wrongly imprisoned and dubbed one of the so-called Central Park Five. Even the Ken Burns documentary—it's almost like a Wikipedia page. After getting to know him and getting to spend time with him, he's become more than just a man I play. To think that this is home to me. It was already intense. I just want to continue to get my feet in all the waters, and just continue to work on projects that mean something, bro. I've been excited for what I've been doing ever since Moonlight. It just has the facts but you don't have the emotion, you don't have the family aspect, you don't have what the script will give you. Are you still in contact with Korey? As you know by now ... the Netflix series brought renewed focus on Central Park 5 prosecutor Linda Fairstein and the role she played in the wrongful convictions. Most definitely. For me, I'm just trying to receive these compliments, man, and I'm trying to just hold onto them because they could be gone in a second. I am healthy. Ava DuVernay Observes 30 Years Since Trump's Infamous Central Park Five Ads, Trump's Central Park Five Comments Are Included in 'When They See Us', CP Five: Trump Doesn't 'Know What It Is to Apologize'.
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