He put the Afro-Boricua shirts that I’m wearing in the first season on sale and raised $40,000. He was educating Spike on this organization and what was going on in PR, and Spike’s heart just opened up. Lemon Andersen, who’s an executive producer and one of the head writers on our show, had been working with an organization that has been doing a lot of great work on the island post–Hurricane Maria. We shot in Puerto Rico for eight days and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It was also nice to see such a gorgeous tribute to Puerto Rico post–Hurricane Maria. I’m really curious about their trip to Puerto Rico, which was a transformative experience for them as artists and individuals. These are two people who went there and decided that it wasn’t the vibe, but still love each other and respect each other enough to remain friends. It’s not uncommon to have at least one friend that you used to mess with, and it didn’t work out. I think about how many times that has happened in life. Why do you think Nola and Mars have defied the odds?
#Gotta kick it up cast series
She’s Gotta Have It is one of the few series that highlight a friendship between a woman and a man that was once a sexual relationship. In the conversation below, Ramos reflects on Mars’s journey, how gentrification has given him a “kick in the ass,” and why he thinks filming In the Heights marks “the most authentic, dope, New York, Latino moment in history.” But after starring in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway blockbuster Hamilton, getting handpicked by Spike Lee for this small-screen version of his 1989 film, and landing the marquis role in the In the Heights movie, Ramos is on the verge of superstardom. This was not unfamiliar territory for Ramos, who talks to Vulture about growing up poor in Brooklyn and having many doors slammed in his face because he’s Latino or didn’t have what was considered leading-man material. So both Mars (Anthony Ramos) and Nola (DeWanda Wise), who’s at an artistic crossroads, find themselves in a state of limbo.
And that’s only because his job is dissolved once the owner’s Brooklyn rent got too damn high to maintain. The struggling musician is bouncing from couch to couch after his sister, LuLu ( Santana Caress Benitez), throws him out of her apartment because he can no longer help her pay for it. The last time we saw Mars Blackmon on She’s Gotta Have It, he and his gigantic gold name chain were serenaded out of his former lover Nola Darling’s apartment to the beat of Prince’s “Raspberry Beret.” But in the second season of the Netflix series, out today, Mars has bigger things to focus on than a wounded heart.
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