At Justice Smith’s audition for The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann’s ambitious Netflix series chronicling the birth of hip hop in 1979 New York, he performed “Juicy” by the late Notorious B.I.G. “You know very well/who you are,” he sang. By contrast, his lavishly named character, Ezekiel “Zeke” Figuero, tries to hide his poetic heart. “He’s expressive, but there’s added pressure that he succumbs to about what it means to be a man,” Smith says. Though Smith grew up in a family of musicians, he always saw himself as the least likely to achieve musical stardom.

Source: thestar August 29, 2016 12:56 UTC