Lamorne Morris understands his hit Hulu show “Woke” aims to mirror society as we know it, so it was only natural for the sophomore season to be inspired by the aftermath of the George Floyd riots and the Black Lives Matter movement. “With all that was happening in the world, we got a chance to see a lot of overnight activists pop up, we got a chance to see a lot of performative stuff, a lot of performative allies, a lot of murkiness around what the issues were so we tackled that.
What does it mean to be an activist? Is it just some Instagram stuff that you just post and then keep it moving? Maybe, if that’s effective for your community and your following.
Do you continue that journey? And what happens if somebody gives you a bunch of money? Give me a quarter of a million dollars and am I going to carry that same tune?
It comes with some baggage and some compromise. So then the question is, are you willing to compromise,” Morris told ET Canada. READ MORE: Ralph Ahn, ‘New Girl’ Actor Who Played Tran, Dead At 95: Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris Pay Tribute “With Season 2, our characters are on a crazy exploration on what it means to be woke, if they even want to be woke and would they rather be broke.
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