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‘I’m a Virgo’ Editor on His Approach to 13-Foot-Tall Sex Scene in Boots Riley’s Superhero Drama
In the third episode of Prime Video’s I’m a Virgo, a beloved character succumbs to an injury after being denied treatment at a hospital because he was uninsured; it’s one of several of the show’s depictions of the horrors of America under capitalism, and the scene that made editor Tom Eagles want to be part […]
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What It’s Like to Act With a 13-Foot Dummy and Boots Riley: “All of Me Was Intimidated”
Jharrel Jerome didn’t quite know what he was getting into when he received a somewhat cryptic email from filmmaker Boots Riley early one morning during the 2020 pandemic with the subject line “13-Foot-Tall Black Man in Oakland,” but it was enough to make him jump out of bed. “For any actor to get a personal […]
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The Joy and Tragedy of ‘I’m a Virgo’ and How the Boots Riley Series Is “Built to Go On”
[This story contains mild spoilers from I’m a Virgo.] As an executive producer in search for some of the more out-of-the-box movies and series (Prometheus, The Leftovers and Pachinko, to name a few), Michael Ellenberg’s gut instinct propelled him to pursue the possibility of developing something with exploding writer and filmmaker Boots Riley. Nearly five years […]
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‘I’m a Virgo’ Star Jharrel Jerome on His Mystical Journey as an Oakland Giant, That Sex Scene and Finale Question
[This story contains spoilers from the finale of I’m a Virgo.] In the opening scene of Boots Riley’s mystical coming-of-age, superhero/supervillain origin story about a 13-foot Black teenager in Oakland, I’m a Virgo shows its giant protagonist Cootie (played by Jharrel Jerome), experiencing trauma when he was born. Still covered with blood after entering the […]
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Boots Riley on ‘I’m a Virgo’ Series: “I’m Not Really Making Stuff to Just Enlighten People”
Boots Riley is sharing his approach to his genre-defying mystical limited series — an anti-capitalist satire — that drops on Prime Video Friday, I’m a Virgo. The Sorry to Bother You director, writer and musician, and vocal supporter of the ongoing writers strike, aims to spur action with his tale of a 13-foot protagonist, played […]
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‘I’m a Virgo’ Review: Jharrel Jerome Plays a Towering Teen in Boots Riley’s Inspired Prime Video Series
The show blends superhero tropes and anti-capitalist satire in telling the story of a 13-foot-tall Black teen in contemporary Oakland.
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