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Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry Is More Than Just Your Paper Boi
I’ve often thought about making a list of TV and movie characters so beloved that the actors who play the roles become inextricably linked to the characters. Perhaps the greatest indicator of this phenomenon is when black audiences begin referring to actors by the roles they play. Michael K. Williams will always be Omar from…
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Watch: Atlanta’s 2nd-Season Trailer Is Finally Here
Save for Oprah’s show-stealing speech, the Golden Globes were, for the most part, awash in white people in black dresses. Which is why we’re extra grateful that, toward the end of Hollywood’s first major award show of the season, we were blessed with a teaser from season 2 of FX’s Atlanta. It’s a whole entire…
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Watch: Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry’s Emmy Mixtape
The first black actor Brian Tyree Henry saw on television was Jasmine Guy, in A Different World. Henry was absolutely enamored. Decades later, the idea that Henry might be the first black actor some children are seeing on television means the world to him. “Representation is really key, because I don’t think I’d be anywhere near…
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This Embrace Between Brian Tyree Henry and Keith Stanfield Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Between Moonlight’s win and Tracee Ellis Ross going Peak Tracee Ellis Ross with her win and her speech and her joy and her dress (and her dress and her dress and her dress) and Issa Rae not winning (yet) but reminding us that we probably should get used to seeing her at these types of…
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Watch: ‘Name That Trap Song’ With Atlanta's Brian Tyree Henry
Just because Brian Tyree Henry plays Paper Boi, a budding rapper in the FX series Atlanta, doesn’t mean that he actually knows trap music IRL. Atlanta, whose 10-episode season ends Tuesday (and which has been renewed for a second season), has done a phenomenal job depicting the vastness of the black experience, including the role of rap…
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Watch: Brian Tyree Henry Is All About That Paper Boi
Brian Tyree Henry is Atlanta’s Paper Boi. The Morehouse man and Yale Drama alum had his big break on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning play The Book of Mormon. And now he’s in homes across the nation as one of the stars of Donald Glover’s unapologetically black comedy, Atlanta. Henry’s character, Alfred—also known as Paper Boi on the show—is…