Sterling Ok. Brown is again on display, reuniting with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman for Paradise, Hulu’s new political thriller.
Within the present’s debut episode, which premiered on Sunday, January 26, Brown performs Xavier Collins, a secret service agent and single father, who’s thrust into the center of a surprising homicide investigation. Regardless of his long-time collaboration with Fogelman, Brown was nonetheless shocked by the twist within the pilot episode.
In Paradise, Brown’s character, Xavier Collins, is the main suspect within the homicide of President Cal Bradford, performed by James Marsden. The premiere follows Xavier as he discovers the president’s lifeless physique and begins investigating the homicide on his personal.
Nonetheless, the plot thickens as Xavier learns that he and others are trapped in a extremely managed underground bunker. The twist provides new layers to the thriller: who killed the president, and why are they within the bunker?
Although Brown had labored with Fogelman earlier than, he nonetheless discovered himself shocked by the twist in Paradise. Reflecting on his response, Brown advised Individuals, “I stated, ‘You son of a gun. You probably did it once more.'”
He said that he anticipated an easy political thriller, solely to search out himself immersed in a very completely different state of affairs. “I assumed I used to be simply taking a look at a political thriller and I am attempting to determine who killed the president. And that was sufficient. I used to be completely happy.”
The twist left him stunned, saying, “I discover out that this entire factor is happening on this bunker that sunshine is just not sunshine, that geese aren’t mother-effing geese.”
Brown is just not solely excited for the twist but additionally about reuniting with Fogelman, a long-time collaborator. He labored with Fogelman on This Is Us from 2016 to 2022, and now, he’s again in a well-known but new setting.
Brown shared that Fogelman wrote the function of Xavier with him in thoughts. “I’ve learn 106 of his scripts up till I learn the pilot, after which that was 107,” Brown stated. “It was simply as flipping good because the 106 that I labored with him on This Is Us.”
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