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O-T Fagbenle on the Social Relevance of ‘Maxxx’ and Almost Having to Choose Between His Passion Project and ‘Black Widow’
O-T Fagbenle‘s six-episode comedy series “Maxxx” makes quite a statement when it says, “The only way for a Black man to stay safe is to become famous.”
It is quick and witty in the moment of the show about a former boy band member trying to reclaim fame, which Fagbenle wrote two years ago and was in production on in 2019, but it takes on even more poignancy now that the show is finally launching in the U.S. “Maxxx” premieres July 28 on Hulu after weeks of Black Lives Matter protests and calls for justice and police reform in the wake of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd’s (among other) murders. Its U.S. home comes from an acquisition; “Maxxx” was originally created for Channel 4 in the U.K. and aired there this past spring.
“I was keen, in what was ostensibly a half-hour comedy about a pop star, to try and delve deeper into certain issues. In Episode 1, it’s about, what is death and the death of the body, and in Episode 2, what is race and is race something that is cultural or biological?” Fagbenle tells Variety.
But even beyond the subject matter of the show, Fagbenle says what feels the most relevant to him about “Maxxx” is that they made a production from a Black-owned company (his brother Luti Fagbenle’s Luti Media) that features a number of Black heads of departments from makeup to locations, in addition to Black producers and writers.
“I routinely play ‘Spot the black person’ when I go on set,” Fagbenle says. “People feeling that they are racist or not racist is secondary to the way that we all contribute to the systematic racism. The numbers of Black writers, directors and people behind the camera is way below what is commensurate with a demographic of America or England. And
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"I’ve never been good enough. Maybe for others. But not for me. So I filled the void with ‘busy’ — work, plans, substances, people. Then I spoke with a Doc and began learning about how the brain works, how it can be rewired. For the past five years I wrote daily affirmations 21 times a day, ‘I am worthy’. And I now believe those words”
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“Playing dress up was always my escape. So I made my escape my life.”
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“My paternal ancestor, Lutiseku - which means great things to come - brought the Fagbenle clan across Nigeria to settle in Ibadjo. His son was similarly not one for settling, captaining some of Nigeria’s first railway trains cutting their way across Yoruba land. My maternal grandfather sailed across from the UK to Australia and piloted the first airplanes across the Antipodean skies during WWI. British TV is blowing up online thanks to YouTube and Netflix See full article at Tubefilter.com Netflix Making Version Of Hit YouTube Format ‘Blue Therapy’ See full article at Deadline Film Hollyoaks is a British television soap opera first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. The following is a list of characters who currently appear in the programme, listed in order of first appearance. In the case that more than one actor has portrayed a character, the current actor portraying the character is listed last.
My parents lived in many cities in my formative years, and, after receiving my first sax at 10 years old, I soon began touring Europe playing in “big bands” up until my early teens.
Samuel Beckett says there are two types of fools—the ones who stay put and the ones who keep moving. I am from lines of the latter.
In 2019 I took 52 flights — that’s one flight a week the entire year. I had also pushed myself over the past few years to accomplish more than I considered myself capable of doing to write, direct, produce and act for the TV show MAXXX. It was the hardest thing I had ever done. Then Covid paused it all.”
I spent 5 months living in Tanzania with my mom in a small fishing and arts town on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Bagamoyo. I never thought I would enjoy a rural
According to Deadline, Netflix has started casting for its version of Blue Therapy, which began three years ago on the Trend CentrlYouTube channel. An initial run of episodes followed multiple U.K. couples as the sought relationship help through therapy. The first of those videos has accumulated 3.2 million views on YouTube.
Channel 4 was quick to recognize Blue Therapy‘s potential. It teamed up with producer Luti Fagbenlefor an adaptation that aired on platforms like BET+ under the name In Love & Toxic: Blue Therapy. The Netflix version comes from Fagbenle’s Osun Group, according to Deadline.
Blue Therapy is not Channel 4’s only inroad to YouTube.
Coming a few weeks after taking on the second season of The Sidemen’s Inside, the streamer has started casting on the show in which six couples are guided by a seasoned expert in an attempt to tackle ongoing issues in their relationship. At the end of the hard-hitting therapy sessions, the couples are faced with the ultimate question – will they find their way back to each other or end the relationship for good?
The show started life on YouTube three years ago on the Trend Centrlchannel and episodes with titles such as “My Partner Is Taking Fake It Til You Make It To Another Level” have amassed millions of views.
Channel 4has since commissioned a local version produced by Luti Fagbenle’s Luti Mediatitled In Love & Toxic: Blue Therapy, which aired in 2023. The Netflix version,...List of Hollyoaks characters
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