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Algee Smith on the Emotional Toll of Playing a Victim of Police Brutality Onscreen
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variety.comAngelique Jackson During the early days of Black Lives Matter protests, Algee Smith took to Instagram Live to express his feelings about the state of the world in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
He shared the emotional toll of acting in films that portray police brutality, saying that he no longer wanted to take on those robes but instead roles that will “edifying a Black man.”“I was obviously in a very emotional place.
However, it was a very honest place,” Smith says during Variety’s #Represent: Black Men in Hollywood roundtable. “I feel like I’ve played so many roles where I’ve either died as a young Black teenager or where it’s been something that hasn’t been edifying a Black teenager or a Black man at all.
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