Just before she got the call to audition for Harlem, actress Jerrie Johnson had surrendered everything to the universe as she manifested a series regular role.
Then at 5 pm one evening, she received 12 pages of dialogue she had to learn by 11 am the next morning. She was a little concerned, but she didn’t have to be.
“I read it and I was like this is a piece of cake,” Johnson told ESSENCE. “As a poet, as a writer, if the writing is not good, it’s harder to learn it. I feel myself autocorrecting. And what was on the page came so naturally. I had a friend come over, we read it a few times and it was golden.”
Johnson got the role of Tye in the new Prime Video series following a group of four friends in New York City. Tye is a queer woman who owns a
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