Omari Hardwick
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How the Hottest Black Celebs Over 40 Keep Fit and Fine
How does 40-plus celebs such as Angela Bassett, Shemar Moore, Kerry Washington and others look so good? We discovered the answers.
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Omari Hardwick Issues Statement In Full Support of WGA Writers Strike
Currently starring opposite JLo in Netflix’s The Mother, the Power star took time to address the Writers Guild of America strike.
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Omari Hardwick Reveals He Only Got Paid $150K per Episode on Power
The Nobody’s Fool star also shared how producer 50 Cent lent him money on more than one occasion during the show’s early seasons.
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Exclusive Clip: Spell Is Giving Me Misery With Melanin and Loretta Devine Has Me Shook
Have you ever wondered what a Black version of Misery (the 1990 classic starring James Caan and Kathy Bates) would be like? Well…enter Spell, directed by Mark Tonderai (House at the End of the Street). The film’s synopsis via the press release sent to The Root: While flying to his father’s funeral in rural Appalachia,…
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Watch: Starz Drops Trailer for Sixth Season of Power
If The Wire had a love child with The Sopranos and the resulting baby ran away from its good home in the HBO suburbs, moved to a town called Starz and started hanging out with friends named “Fiddy,” we’d have to name that hit show Power. Starz dropped the trailer for the upcoming season of…
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Power Shuts Down Filming After Production Assistant Dies On Location [Updated]
Sad news to report in regards to the Starz hit drama, Power. According to Deadline, Pedro Jimenez, a production assistant, was fatally struck by a 2006 Ford Explorer at around 4:30 Monday morning while setting up for a Brooklyn shoot that day. He was pronounced dead at Brooklyn hospital this morning. Jimenez has been on…
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Knockouts: Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson and More Kill It at the Creed II Premiere
Black excellence was once again on display last night in New York City. And while the cast of Creed II was conspicuously missing its prequel’s writer and director, Ryan Coogler, sequel writer (and Root 100 honoree) Cheo Hodari Coker was on hand, as was sequel director Steven Caple, Jr. Of course, star Michael “Bae” Jordan,…
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Sorry to Bother You Has a Wild Alternate Reality Centered on Black People
There’s something so powerful about Boots Riley declaring in his debut, Sorry to Bother You, that black people are allowed to be a part of a movie with an alternate reality. This film is set in an alternate present-day Oakland and it follows Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) as he struggles to make something out of…
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The Cast of Power Talks Season 5, Redemption and Forgiveness
Starz’s top-rated show Power is set to come back this Sunday, July 1, thrusting us right back where we left off: into shock and mourning. But first … season 4 spoiler alert!!! Ready? You were warned! (And you had a whole year to get caught up.) Most of us are still shook from Raina’s tragic…
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Omari Hardwick, Meagan Good Shine in the Promising Yet Flawed Sundance Film A Boy. A Girl. A Dream
There’s a particular scene in A Boy. A Girl. A Dream., directed by Qasim Basir (who also directed Mooz-lum), where Cass (Omari Hardwick) has an all-too-familiar run-in with the police. Without going into too much detail, the interaction leaves Cass broken, with only Frida (Meagan Good) there to pick up the pieces. In a film…