Have you ever ever seen a 13-foot-tall particular person up shut? Nicely, get able to in Prime Video’s new coming-of-age collection, “I am a Virgo,” starring Jharrel Jerome. The Emmy winner stars within the quirky comedy – created, written, and government produced by “Sorry to Trouble You” filmmaker Boots Riley – as Cootie, an enormous younger Black man in Oakland, CA, who’s grown up hidden away from the world due to his humongous dimension. Nevertheless, he finally embarks on an journey to find every little thing he is been lacking out on.
Per the present’s first teaser trailer, which Prime Video unveiled on March 6, Jerome’s overgrown Cootie has been tucked away in his mother and father’ small residence all his life, stumbling round placing holes of their partitions as a result of they concern “the world just isn’t prepared” to come across somebody fairly like him. However because the preview teases, viewers will quickly get to take a “fantastical joyride with a younger man on his option to do huge issues.”
“I am a Virgo,” billed as a “legendary odyssey,” marks Jerome’s newest function since wowing audiences in award-winning initiatives like “Moonlight” and Netflix’s true-life mini collection “When They See Us.” In a February interview with Collider, Riley teased Jerome’s efficiency within the upcoming collection, saying, he “does an incredible job, and persons are going to be him with totally different eyes after this one.”
The present, which Jerome additionally serves as an government producer on, stars different acquainted faces like “On My Block”‘s Brett Grey and comic Mike Epps. Forward, discover out every little thing else we find out about “I am a Virgo” thus far.
