Video After The Jump
Sanaa Lathan and Stephan James visited The Breakfast Club to promote their television series "Shots Fired."
The two discussed:
- Why their character roles were important
- The difficulty in playing the roles because of the police violence happening currently
- Coming to set and doing prayer circles before shooting scenes
- That this show is supposed to make you look at these common police brutality situations from different angles
- Other goals from releasing this series
- That this is really a ten hour special and not an episodic series
- Sanaa's previous roles and coming up as a black actor
- Black actresses succeeding in Hollywood
- Having her father show support as another actor
- Stephan training for his roll, not having a stunt double because he wanted to do the physical scenes
- Working alongside Sanaa, talk doing chemistry auditions and being comfortable with each other
- Sanaa dating around, currently being single
- What they want the audience to learn after watching this series
Source: The Breakfast Club
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