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Warning: This article contains mention of suicide.Based on the Gladiator podcast from The Boston Globe and Wondery, the first season of American Sports Story recounts the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez. The football star was selected to play for the New England Patriots during the 2010 NFL Draft. He served as tight end for three seasons but was released from the team after being charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd.
✕ Remove Ads Barron Believes Aaron Did Love Shayanna In His Own Way "Despite whatever demons he was battling, his love for her never subsided, and it was never hidden." Screen Rant: With this being based on a true story, how much did you know about Aaron Hernandez before joining the show? Jaylen Barron: Yeah, of course. She is a real person. Unfortunately, I don't know her personally, but it absolutely influences a lot more because I want to make sure that I'm doing her justice, and I'm not making her seem any particular way. I really wanted her to come across the way I perceived her in her interviews as genuinely in love with him, strong, intelligent, and caring. And that's the choices that I made as an actress with every single scene that I did.
✕ Remove Ads Barron Wishes That Aaron Had Been Honest With His Fiancée "Now we'll never know if she would've taken it well or not. She could have helped him." Speaking from your character's perspective, what do you feel drew her to Aaron romantically? Jaylen Barron: I feel like she gave him a sense of comfort, but I feel like his infidelities were just like any other man's infidelities where they are sorry when they get caught. Do I think that he would come to her and be like,"I'm cheating on you"? No, because he's just cheating to cheat.
Jaylen Barron: A normal one. She didn't come from millions and millions of dollars to where they could hire somebody to do it. She was used to being raised like,"I can do it. This is my baby's room. I don't need somebody else to do it." All of that extra money is a little bit foreign to her, so she has a difficult time understanding where he's coming from with it.
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