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The Treatment

Omari Hardwick: “Power”

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Omari Hardwick stops by The Treatment to discuss his hesitation in playing lead role of Ghost in Starz’ Power.

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0:00.0

A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life.

0:03.0

You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail.

0:08.0

Have I ever gone to jail?

0:09.0

Yeah, I just got out, actually.

0:10.0

If he doesn't show up the court, we've got to pay the $50,000.

0:13.0

No degree exchange, no kiss the bride.

0:16.0

There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding.

0:19.0

Off the block. All six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back

0:24.1

are now available on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:30.1

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.

0:46.2

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I've been following the career of my guest, Marry Hardwork, for a while.

0:49.2

He had a great year.

0:50.5

You think about Belves of St. Anna, and one of my favorite films that he's in, Next Day Air.

0:54.4

Oh, man.

0:55.2

It's such a great range.

0:56.6

And then I had a chance to meet him when he's doing the show on TNT Dark Blue a few years back.

1:01.4

But he's broken through really in where he finally showed in the show Power on Stars.

1:06.2

I'm talking, of course, to Mr. James' Ghost St. Patrick's sitting sitting across me, or Amari Hartwick. Thanks so much

1:11.2

for doing this, Omar. Thank you. I'm beyond humbled Elvis. Uh, no, please don't. Let me, let me be

1:15.8

that. Let me be that. I am, man. I got to tell you. When you and I met each other, I figured we needed

1:19.8

to sit down and do it. Well, I told you even you saw that first script for power and you saw what ghost was,

1:31.3

what did you think of the character?

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