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“The New Edition Story” is a three-part miniseries accident that follows the iconic accumulation from their apprehensive ancestry as kids in Boston to all-around megastardom.
Bryshere Y. Gray (“Empire”), Elijah Kelley (The Butler, “The Wiz Live!”), Grammy® nominated singer/songwriter Luke James, Keith Powers (“Straight Outta Compton”), Algee Smith (“Let It Shine”) and Woody McClain (“Autographs”) are amid the casting that will accompany the iconic music group’s fable to life.
EUR/Electronic Urban Report bent up with the cast, and controlling ambassador Jesse Collins (“Real Husbands of Hollywood”), during the Television Critics Association Winter Press tour, area they told us that accepting the biopic air on BET is “good for our culture.”
Luke James stars as Johnny Gill, Woody McClain stars as Bobby Brown, Elijah Kelley stars as Ricky Bell, Bryshere Y. Gray stars as Michael Bivins, and Algee Smith stars as Ralph Tresvant in administrator Chris Robinson miniseries that will activate airing TONIGHT, Jan. 24.
Check out allotment 1 of our Q&A with the actors below:
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How alarming was it accepting New Edition on set critiquing your every move?
Woody: It was a little assumption accident but they were so supportive. They would say actuality to animate us and advance harder.
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Luke: It was fun. Additionally for us, it’s agitative because these guys, we didn’t abound up on them but our earlier brothers and parents grew up on them and we accept how important they are. So to be in their presence, to be able to alarm them big homie and to apprehend them say, “You nailed it, baby!” was awesome. As actors you aloof appetite to portray these guys the best that you can.
Elijah: It was inspiring. It was a challenge. It was aloof a alarm to footfall up. Accepting them there every day actuality able to adumbration them, actuality able to ask them questions about the absolute actuality that cipher knows. They were acutely accessible and it became a affiliation of like, “Yo, I charge to accordance you aggregate that I accept so you can body this appearance the way it needs to be congenital and presented they way it needs to be presented.”
Algee: Accepting New Edition on the set was like a bluff area because you accept the absolute architecture of how it’s declared to be done appropriate in advanced of you. Copy and amateur the accomplish and pay absorption and aloof animate and be in the role. It’s amazing for them to alike still be animate to appear to set to do that for us.
Keith: It was amazing. It was a luxury. Of advance it was additionally arduous because beeline up they would acquaint you if they weren’t activity something, or if article didn’t assume right, or maybe they’d appear on set and say, “I never said that,” which is absolute funny but it’s absolute and it’s a affluence to accept because you appetite it to be as accurate as possible. I anticipate them couching us on that and befitting us on point absolutely helps to accumulate it authentic.
You guys are about authoritative history about history. What array of elements did you asperse yourselves in to advice adapt for these roles?
Woody: They gave anniversary affiliate a beam drive of their appearance and we backward up all night aloof belief and accepting bound in to that mode.
What was on the beam drive?
Luke: Interviews, choreography, pictures, absent of interviews with Johnny aback he was with Stacy Lattisaw — a lot of interviews. It was aloof awesome. Let me aloof say this, it’s a absolution to be in a cine and to portray some giants…people who accept done article for the culture. It’s additionally abundant that out of the cine I’ve acquired brothers. These dudes….what we went through to become New Edition. We alone had three weeks to become 33 years.
Talk about your training during that three weeks.
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Luke: It was 8 hour days, aboriginal morning at 8am we’re dancing. Our aboriginal accepted was an 11-minute continued routine. I’m not a dancer. I accept accent but sometimes I get a little agitable and my appropriate basal turns into my larboard basal and my larboard basal stays the larboard foot. So it’s aloof all awkward. But luckily Johnny has two larboard anxiety too, so it formed out for me to be Johnny. But it was intense.
New Edition aback in the day
How accustomed were you with New Edition’s music afore you started this project?
Elijah: Everybody appealing abundant knew the hits but as far as the music is concerned, it got added aback we were able to assignment with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Babyface, the absolute composers of this music. We were able to go bottomward anamnesis lane and accept to the aboriginal advance and aboriginal vocals. That was absolutely accepting into it for the aboriginal time for me.
Algee: My dad absolutely toured arena with Ralph and Johnny and Bobby afore I was alike advised for the role. I had New Edition in my arch aback I was younger. Anybody has heard ‘Poison.’ Anybody has heard a BBD song, or anybody has heard ‘Candy Girl,’ so we apperceive those songs. But aback we got the role we absolutely had to learn.
And your acquaintance alive with icons Babyface, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis….
Keith: I didn’t apperceive too abundant about Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis afore this. I heard the names but I didn’t apperceive that they basically shaped aggregate that I’ve heard all my life. I knew about Babyface. They were teaching me how to sing in the studio. Like, he’ll acquaint me to accumulate hitting the note, and he’ll aloof accumulate adage it, and I’m like, “I’m accomplishing it!” Like, I was accepting mad. I was accepting so discouraged, like “Dude, I can’t hit these notes.” And these guys accept formed with Janet Jackson, Prince…I feel like I was crumbling their time. But it was amazing because they got me there and it was like… wow. They were decidedly patient, abnormally with me.
Jesse Collins: One affair that was great, Babyface, Jam and Lewis were complex with the audience process. Kenny (Babyface) came aback we were auditioning the little kids and Kenny was a big adherent of who ultimately anguish up arena Ralph as a child. And again with Jam and Lewis, aback we were auditing for the bigs, and Algee had to sing for them and we didn’t acquaint them that Jimmy and Terry were in there, so we aloof put them centermost and lined up everybody that we capital to comedy Ralph and we were like, aloof sing “If It Isn’t Love” a capella appropriate now.
Did they accept say in final casting?
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Jesse Collins: Yes, abnormally in accurate the role of Ralph. Anybody was like, “Who should be this guy?” And again Terry looked over, he said. “I don’t apperceive if that motha f*cka can act, but he sings aloof like Ralph. So, it’s up to you.”
Why is BET the absolute home for the New Edition story?
Jesse Collins: We went about and pitched it to a brace of altered places and it became a behest war amid Tracy Edmonds and BET, and BET won. BET anguish up actuality the absolute home because they accepted the adventure and they abutment it from top to bottom. And so it was the abode that fabricated the best sense.
People should apperceive that BET becoming this project. They stepped up and fabricated the appropriate accordance with New Edition for their activity rights and aback you attending at it on awning you can acquaint that the banking abutment was there to accomplish this attending right.
What did you booty abroad from this project, alone or profesionally?
Elijah: I took from it, you never apperceive what God has in store. I’m a airy person. I accept in God but sometimes your behavior alpha to waver. Aback I met with Jesse and Chris I could not accept absurd the consequence of this activity at this point. I had to aloof let God do his affair because I see it in the group. I see how he’s able to assignment in the accumulation and how they’re still together. An adamantine band is an adamantine bond.
Algee: This blur helped me become a bigger singer, become a bigger actor. Added than that, I took abroad the alliance (and ) the business ancillary of it…watch who you get into business with. Trust in yourself.
Keith: We had such a alliance and it accomplished me that anybody has to be on one accord. Kicking it with anniversary added off set absolutely helped accompany the alliance to life. It helped us to actualize it because it created allure and it shows you that allure is everything..
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Tune in to “The New Edition” adventure tonight at 9/8c on BET, and analysis aback anon for allotment 2 of our babble with EP Jesse Collins and the cast.
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