"If it wasn't George and David, and had it not been Rei, I just wouldn't have done it. I'm named after a man who was shot and killed by the police and so I took a very long, long time to decide that I could actually do this, and I had to sort of get permission, and I sought counsel from some people in my circle and I needed their permission. "I had to speak to my mother and ask her for permission to even do the role. I tried everything in my power to not even be a part of this show because I just felt like I couldn't bring myself to play such a terrible person who has inflicted such pain in a beautiful community like Baltimore. Reflecting on playing Rayam, Britt-Gibson shared: "Everything, for me was tough. The actor portrays Jemell Rayam, a former GTTF detective who shot three people -one fatally- while on the Baltimore police force. You can be experiencing this, this is what you should do in order to decompress.'"ĭarrell Britt-Gibson admitted he found it incredibly difficult to be in the show because of his own personal experience with police brutality, as his uncle Darrell was shot and killed by two white police officers. "Sometimes you don't even realise it affected you until you have a conversation with the young lady they put in place for us and she said, 'Listen, this can be happening to you. all of those things, it is taking its toll on you, It's affecting you. This guy is no longer here, you're looking at the five babies that he's raised and you're like, 'Wow, oh man, he's gone.' And you're listening to how his wife spoke about him. "I know that it affects me but sometimes you forget, but then you realise at night time you're hearing his voice. I'd be on a laptop looking at Sean Suiter and his life, and all of the footage and information that was given to me, and listening to his voice, and you know what? You don't know if it affects you. "It was challenging in the way of everything Josh said, and thank God for the young lady that they provided the entire cast to speak to, listen to her speak on ways to decompress," Hector said. Jamie Hector concurred with his co-star, saying that it "was intense" to make the show and star as homicide detective Sean Suiter, who died in 2017 one day before testifying in court in the GTTF case. "I'm sort of losing my train of thought, forgive me, but I think that it was important to have because before we started, I thought, 'Oh I've never done this is this really necessary?' Then I thought you know what, no, it is, it's nice to know that that's there." The Impact the Show's Subject Had on the Cast "That was intense to realize that when you're telling stories that have any kind of violence to it, it can just touch on that with people. "And there was times where seeing how scenes would affect people, or an actor who worked on one scene who had been shot earlier in the year, and here we are doing a scene where he's my partner and he's watching somebody beat someone up and there's blood, and that triggered something for him. Our work always, for me, it always can kind of come home a little bit, even though you'd like to put it away it always sort of seeps in somehow. "That I thought was a lovely thing that they did, because as someone who's very pro-therapy in my life I just love knowing that I had that. He went on: "We did have somebody to talk to, all of us, and I never had that experience on a show, someone who's just there to talk about the material and how it may be triggering for some people. "So I found that challenging, I just found doing the scenes and portraying such a time so accurately, like physical violence, it takes a toll on you." you feel that sort of reverberated in the communities we're filming in. "The people that they've affected in these communities are the sort of silent part of this show. "We're dealing with really sensitive material, we're playing real people, real events that happen, and these people have families," Charles said. Paul Schiraldi/HBO 'We Own This City' Cast Had A Counsellor on Set L-R: Wunmi Mosaku, Josh Charles, Jamie Hector and Darrell Britt-Gibson in "We Own This City", the actors spoke to Newsweek about their experience making the HBO show.
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