![]() TJ: I was excited but there were some nerves once I booked it because it is a classic an iconic film. What kind of feelings did you have about joining a show with such an established name? The film is a Hollywood classic. ![]() I kept going back in until I landed the role.ĪG: The show is more of a continuation than a remake, which sets it apart from a lot of other projects, but it still carries the power of having the name Boomerang. I read the script, studied, did the audition and later that day got a call saying that I was going back in for a callback. ![]() He broke it down for me and said it was for BET and that Lena Waithe and Halle Berry were Executive Producers and that it was called Boomerang. TJ: My manager called me and said he had an audition for me for the next day. Hope you enjoy this interview and please be sure to check out where you can find Tetona on social media at the end of this interview!ĪG: This has all the signs of being a breakout role. We got to talk about the social and cultural impact of the show, its importance, how this is a continuation rather than a remake, and more. My favorite moment from the premiere might be when geek-chic Bryson, sure of his wunderkind status, gets a dressing down from his supervisor (Paula Newsome) that begins with, “That’s the problem with you young bucks.” The two are going to have to fight for the experience to match their confidence.I recently had the pleasure of speaking with the star of BET’s Boomerang, Tetona Jackson. After all, Simone and Bryson are a somewhat wan pair, tangled in a will-they-or-won’t-they chewing gum wad. Truth be told, I might end up watching this show solely for social media phenomenon Milan, a natural and fervid comedienne. These are the small moments that will hook you. When Simone forces Tia to post an Instagram story during a round of Celebrity, Tia resists and ends up recording a hilariously peevish video expressing her boredom. Simone’s first client as an independent broker is outrageous dancer Tia (Lala Milan), a zany Cardi B stand-in with lots of personality on the stripping pole. Although only two episodes were available to critics, I got the sense that this episode might be closer to the intended spirit of the show than the first, highlighting the complex relationships between the players. I was afraid Boomerang was going to be another conference-room story, but the series really vibrates in the second episode, which takes place during the friend group’s game night. … Because being young, gifted and black is cool, but it’s also exhausting.” And that’s how you sell an energy drink! (Sorta.) If we want to be great at everything, we have to be present for everything. We want to show up at church every week just to make sure that we get into heaven. We want the fly crib, we want the dope view. Hungry Bryson aches for a chance to prove himself at work and gets his own Don Draper monologue in the premiere: “You know what black Millennials want?” (“Someone to pay their student loans,” Crystal deadpans.) “We want it all. ![]() Instead, Waithe, along with fellow exec producer Halle Berry and showrunner Ben Cory Jones ( Insecure), uses the advertising agency setting to elucidate how the black community tells stories about itself in the Digital Age. In its favor, the show feels less Boomerang: The Second Generation than Boomerang by way of Friends. Set in present-day Atlanta, the TV sequel follows cocky Simone, the daughter of Murphy and Berry’s characters, and irresolute Bryson (Tequan Richmond), the son of Givens’ character, as they navigate romance, professional ambition and life as black millennials in 2019. The original Boomerang starred Eddie Murphy as a womanizing hotshot ad agent, Robin Givens as the vixen boss who turns all his selfish behavior right back on him and Halle Berry as the plucky girl-next-door type whose nurturing charm wins his heart. The brightly staged opening tableau pays homage to the film on which this BET half-hour dramedy is based, a progressive-for-1992 rom-com with all sorts of mixed messages about how men and women should behave. Luckily, it was two minutes into the pilot. That was the moment I knew Boomerang had bite. Black Twitter will eat us for breakfast!” “We can’t have the lead of our commercial ditch a brown-skinned girl for a light-skinned chick. Moments later, he slinks off to follow a statuesque beauty who’s just strutted past them - suddenly, “Cut!” Ad exec Simone (Tetona Jackson) stops the film shoot, a retro-aesthetic promo for an energy drink. A man in a flat top and a trippy Steven Land sweater sidles up to a woman clad in a banana yellow blazer standing by a bar.
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