Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Actor Rome Flynn will be playing Frank Lucas in MGM+ Original Series GODFATHER OF HARLEM. In this interview, Rome talks about joining the cast and about what drew him to the role of Frank Lucas. In Season 4 of Godfather of Harlem, Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) continues his bloody war for control of Harlem against New York’s Mafia families, while contending with the arrival of gangster Frank Lucas (Rome Flynn). After Malcolm X’s (Jason Alan Carvell) tragic assassination, Bumpy must also grapple with his daughter Elise’s (Antionette Crowe-Legacy) involvement with the Black Panthers. MGM+ Original Series GODFATHER OF HARLEM returns on April 13th.
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00:00As much as I could find out about who he was before,
00:04of all the stories before it became so popular
00:09to highlight the obvious things about his life,
00:13really wanted to just study whatever I could find on him,
00:18which wasn't much as far as actual footage,
00:21real interviews, real stories about him.
00:27He told a lot of his own stories,
00:30and so I tried to dig as deep as I could
00:33to figure out a version of him in my mind
00:36that would somehow become who we know him to be now.
00:41It was tedious work as well,
00:44but also very gratifying when you get it right.
00:50They're very meticulous about the details,
00:53and so I live in the world of detail.
00:57So I love that we paid attention to the styles back then,
01:01to how we wore our hair back then,
01:04how we talked back then.
01:05All those details for me helped shape the world
01:07for us to fully play in this very imaginary set.
01:12Early in my career, I've always approached the work
01:15with the same integrity,
01:16but the most challenging thing for me
01:18was having to approach this character
01:22and the scenes that come along playing him
01:26with that same integrity,
01:28because in the past, maybe the integrity I have to carry
01:32is what a relationship looks like,
01:34and maybe that's something that feels common to me,
01:37feels something that I can grasp.
01:39But in this world, in this universe,
01:41the integrity I have to bring to a character
01:43that is unpredictable and sometimes has to defend himself
01:50and maybe has to hurt someone else.
01:52So dealing with that impact of having to do that
01:58and still having to approach it with the same way,
02:00I think it just impacted me, not negatively,
02:04but just making sure that I appreciated
02:10what I was doing on screen
02:11and not letting it be so casual, you know?
02:15Which, you know, sometimes it was good days
02:17and some days weren't as great, you know?
02:20But that's the journey of it,
02:21and it's gratifying at the end when you can watch it
02:23and say, damn, I don't even remember doing that.
02:27And it makes sense.