Interview With "I'm A Virgo" Actor Jharrel Jerome

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jharrel Jerome made Emmy history when he won television's top prize for his work in Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us." Just 21 years old, Jerome became the youngest person to win Lead Actor in a Limited Series and the first Afro-Latino actor to be nominated for and win an Emmy in any category. Five years later, Jerome has returned to the awards race, playing a 13-foot-tall man in Boots Riley's genre-bending "I'm a Virgo." The "Sorry to Bother You" filmmaker turns to television with a coming-of-age story that is equal parts heart-warming, thought-provoking, and evocative. A sharp satire about capitalism, race, and media (among many other things), Jerome infuses the many turns of Riley's script with empathy, tenderness, and seriously impressive range. In conversation with Next Best Picture, Jerome is deep in thought, and his curiosity and humanity as an actor and artist are on full display. He discusses capturing the psyche and physicality of a larger-than-life yet vulnerable character and trusting in Riley's vision for "I'm a Virgo," a collaboration that has yielded some of the year's best television. Please be sure to check out "I'm a Virgo," which is available to stream on Prime Video and is up for your consideration in all eligible Emmy categories. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Shadon Larky's interview with Jarrell Jerome for I'm a Virgo.
0:08.5	Can I have seven Bing Bing Burgers, please?
0:15.2	There'd be plenty more where that came from.
0:21.7	Why are you so damn deep, bro?
0:25.2	Heart, head, hands, feet.
0:27.6	As long as I push, there's no defeat.
0:30.2	Get your mind right, half-wits.
0:32.3	As long as I push, there's no defeat.
0:34.7	Get your mind right, half-wits.
0:36.5	The world is not ready yet.
0:38.3	I just feel like I can't breathe in here.
0:42.3	We beat to rap what key beat to lap, but we beat to rap what you never been out there?
0:47.3	Just hit the sideshow with us.
0:49.3	Well, I'm a Virgo, and Virgo's love adventure.
0:52.3	We're showing up with a giant.
0:53.3	Let's go.
0:54.8	Yo, welcome to the next best picture podcast.
0:57.1	I'm so excited to talk to you.
0:59.0	Thank you so much for your time.
1:01.0	I'm happy to be here.
1:02.0	Thank you.
1:03.1	There are so many things that I wanted to talk to you about.
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