July/August issue of ESSENCE, we gave you a small taste of rising screen king Aaron Pierre, but now we’re introducing you to the whole platter by way of the English actor’s background in theater and his breakout year in Hollywood.Raised in West Croydon, South London, as a kid, the budding track and field star initially thought he’d be a professional athlete, but around the age of 13 he began to set his sights on the stage.“I just had this real interest in telling stories and hopefully sort of affecting change and encouraging conversation and evoking thoughts and feelings from people that would hopefully have a positive impact in some way or another,” Pierre tells ESSENCE.This past spring, he certainly achieved that goal in the role of.
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