'I did my job to the best of my ability, and everybody said it was incredible — but that wasn't good enough. I had a real crisis of faith in myself.' Orlando Jones of the Apple TV+ series 'Swagger' talks to Nina_Metz for MyWorstMoment.
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike that began earlier this month.follows a group of young basketball prospects and the ambitious, straight-laced athletic director at their swanky prep school is played by Orlando Jones. The character believes the path to success when you’re a Black person in a white environment often means suppressing one’s true emotions. “You swallow everything,” is how Jones put it. “Repress and play chess.
“But when the show came out, that scene on the slave ship became a centerpiece in all of the marketing, and it became a huge part of the press. I wasn’t a regular character on the show at that point, so I had no expectation that I would be asked to do the insane amount of publicity for our show. But I was. And I did it.
“Now the next bizarre component happens. Neil Gaiman walks up to me and says, ‘We don’t have a character bible for your character, I’d like for you to write one.’ I’m a huge Neil Gaiman fan and I’ve been in the Writers Guild for 35 years and have a long list of writing credits myself, so I appreciated his acknowledgment of that.“But suddenly I had the pressure of, I had not planned on being a writer and producer on the show — I had been hired as an actor — and now they wanted me to write, too.
“This was in September. September passes. October passes. November passes. Now we’re in December and I still can’t get a release and I can’t pursue other jobs. I’m stuck. So I made a little one-minute video saying I was fired from ‘American Gods,’ don’t let these people tell you they love Mr. Nancy, they don’t. I did that to clear the road for me to go to work in January.. Mr.
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