{"id":273686,"date":"2021-06-13T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/curtiss-cook-takes-center-stage-on-the-chi\/"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:23:31","slug":"curtiss-cook-takes-center-stage-on-the-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/curtiss-cook-takes-center-stage-on-the-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"#Curtiss Cook takes center stage on ‘The Chi’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Curtiss Cook takes center stage on ‘The Chi’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Otis \u201cDouda\u201d Perry (Curtiss Cook) has walked a fine line since entering \u201cThe Chi\u201d universe in Season 2 of Showtime\u2019s gritty, Chicago-based drama.<\/p>\n

The dapp<\/a>er, civic-minded Perry was camouflaged behind his successful and lucrative pizza business, leading a double life as a drug lord with a vise-like grip on the South Central neighborhood around which \u201cThe Chi\u201d orbits.<\/p>\n

Then, in the show\u2019s Season 3 finale, Perry was elected mayor of Chicago, beating Camille Hallaway (played by series<\/a> creator Lena Waithe). Now, in Season 4, he\u2019s using his political clout to defund the city\u2019s police force \u2014 further blurring the edges of his opposing worlds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I like about Otis is his tenacity and f\u2013k-it-all attitude,\u201d Cook told The Post. \u201cHe has a plan and he\u2019s going to do something and make some changes. You have to realize this is a fictional world \u2014 a black mayor can\u2019t go in and fire the cops \u2014 but that\u2019s the whole what\/if world [that the show] lives in.<\/p>\n

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Curtiss Cook as Chicago Mayor Otis Perry in Season 4 of \u201cThe Chi\u201d on Showtime.<\/figcaption>
Elizabeth Sisson\/SHOWTIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think [Perry\u2019s] heart and passion was always about making a difference, a change, and making people rethink who he is,\u201d he said. \u201cOtis is a self-made man who was brought up in a society that didn\u2019t honor or respect who he was and didn\u2019t give him the opportunities he felt he needed. He\u2019s educated himself and made himself into an important businessman, not without the help of his wife [played by Kandi Burruss] and the gang leaders who also molded him into what he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe basically said, \u2018If you\u2019re not going to give me a seat at the table, f\u2013k it, I\u2019ll do it myself \u2014 and if you turn around I\u2019ll rip your head off.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had to be really careful with who and what he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other \u201cChi\u201d characters, meanwhile, are dealing with their everyday lives: Emmett (Jacob Latimore) and Tiff (Hannaha Hall) are having marital difficulties; the friendship between Kevin (Alex Hibbert), Papa (Shamon Brown Jr.) and Jake (Michael Epps) is being tested as college approaches; Kiesha (Birgundi Baker), impregnated by the madman who held her hostage, is trying to figure it all out; and Emmett\u2019s mother, Jada (Yolonda Ross), is dealing with breast cancer.<\/p>\n

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The cast of \u201cThe Chi.\u201d Back row, from left: Jacob Latimore, Curtiss Cook, Michael Epps, Luke James. Front row (from left): Yolonda Ross, Birgundi Baker, Alex Hibbert, Shamon Brown Jr.<\/figcaption>
Shaniqwa Jarvis\/SHOWTIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cook was promoted to a series regular this season, so Otis Perry isn\u2019t going anywhere\u2026maybe. In the Season 4 opener, a short vignette showed Perry getting shot in the chest on a hotel rooftop during a party; the action then flashed back to the month leading up to that event. We\u2019ll learn more next week, when the storyline returns to the present-day, Cook said, in summing up his on-screen alter-ego.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s menacing, but he\u2019s going to be the main person in charge when he walks into any space. He has this resonance like my father and my grandfather, this confidence that \u2018I\u2019m going to be able to handle any problems that come my way,\u2019 that head-of-the-household kind of feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy that confidence,\u201d Cook said. \u201cIf you met me in person you\u2019d be like, \u2018That little dude? He looks so much bigger on TV.\u2019 Sometimes when I watch [Perry] it\u2019s so embarrassing. I\u2019m thinking, \u2018What were you trying to do with that look you gave?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Otis is inside of me.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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