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"The first time I read Korey Wise's words out loud or in front of anybody, he was right there," Jerome said of first meeting Korey Wise, whom he portrays in Ava DuVernay's Netflix limited series 'When They See Us.'
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00:00And at what point did you meet him?
00:02Very early on. We met at the table read.
00:04So Ava brought the men out to the table read,
00:06to the cast reading of episodes one and two.
00:08So I got to meet him.
00:10The first time I read Corey Wise's words out loud
00:12or in front of anybody, he was right there.
00:14Oh, wow. No pressure.
00:16No pressure at all.
00:18It was the first time I had met him, too.
00:20And we had spoken briefly before the read,
00:22but we didn't get to know each other.
00:24So I still didn't know the type of man he was.
00:26I didn't know the type of person he was.
00:28I was so scared. I was reading these lines
00:30and I was like, what if I'm not doing it right?
00:32What if I sound weird? What if I'm forcing it?
00:34Or what if he's offended by how I'm speaking?
00:36So all of that tied into that reading.
00:40But the second we finished, he was wiping tears off of his face.
00:43Oh, wow.
00:44And he took the chain off of his neck and he put it on mine
00:46and he says, you're the king now. You're Corey Wise.
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