Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMary-Louise Parker and Nick Offerman have joined the cast of Netflix’s limited series about Colin Kaepernick’s formative years, “Colin in Black & White.”The two veteran actors will portray the adoptive parents of Kaepernick, Teresa and Rick Kaepernick, respectively.
They join the previously-announced Jaden Michael, who will play the professional athlete.Kaepernick played six seasons in the NFL for the San Francisco 49ers before becoming a free agent after choosing to kneel when the national anthem played in the stadium before his games in 2016.
This action was his way of protesting police brutality and systemic racism. In 2019 he settled a lawsuit with the NFL, which he claimed was working to.
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