{"id":11003,"date":"2020-10-29T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:08:57","slug":"colin-in-black-white-casting-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/colin-in-black-white-casting-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Colin In Black &#038; White&#8221; Casting Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JadenMichael.jpg?resize=450%2C300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JadenMichael.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JadenMichael.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaden Michael will star as a young Colin Kaepernick during his formative high school years in <em>Colin in Black &amp; White<\/em>.\u00a0 Michael\u2019s past credits include Todd Haynes\u2019 drama <em>Wonderstruck<\/em>, Baz Lurhmann&#8217;s critically acclaimed, <em>The Get Down<\/em>, and the indie feature, <em>Custody<\/em> alongside Viola Davis and Ellen Burstyn. Most recently, Michael starred in the lead role in Lorne Michaels\u2019 comedy, <em>Vampires vs. The Bronx<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Colin in Black &amp; White<\/em> is a limited series created by Colin Kaepernick and Academy Award\u00ae Nominee and Emmy Award\u00ae Winner Ava DuVernay.\u00a0 Emmy Award\u00ae Nominee Michael Starrbury writes and serves as executive producer, alongside DuVernay and Kaepernick who will appear as himself as narrator of the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six-episode series will provide an introspective look at Kaepernick\u2019s adolescent years as a Black teen growing up with a white adopted family.\u00a0 It will follow his journey to become a great quarterback while defining his identity and lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him to become the activist he is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaden Michael will star as a young Colin Kaepernick during his formative high school years in Colin in Black &amp; White.\u00a0 Michael\u2019s past credits include Todd Haynes\u2019 drama Wonderstruck, Baz Lurhmann&#8217;s critically acclaimed, The Get Down, and the indie feature, Custody alongside Viola Davis and Ellen Burstyn. Most recently, Michael starred in the lead role&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/colin-in-black-white-casting-announcement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Colin In Black &#038; White&#8221; Casting Announcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-series","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}