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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 13 January 2018
Sterling K Brown: Award-winning
actor and devoted family man
In this Aug. 3, 2017 file photo, actor Sterling K. Brown, a cast By ALICIA RANCILIO son who was adopted by country for “Black Pan-
member in the NBC series “This Is Us,” poses for a portrait in Associated Press white parents as a baby ther,” but the most impor-
Beverly Hills, Calif. NEW YORK (AP) — The on “This is Us,” which returns tant one for Brown is the
morning after making his- Tuesday with a new epi- screening that he’ll have
Associated Press tory as the first black man sode. with son, Andrew.
to win a Golden Globe “I love his intellect, his heart “I’m a cinephile. I love go-
Award for lead actor in a and all of his corniness,” ing to the flicks. I remember
TV drama, Sterling K. Brown said Brown, who won an going to see ‘Superman’
fulfilled an acceptance Emmy last year for his por- and ‘Batman.’
speech promise: He took trayal of Pearson. Now I get to take my son
his 6-year-old son Andrew Brown will guest star on to go see ‘Black Panther,’
to school. Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” and Chad (Boseman) as
Brown said he was “hum- where he will appear with Black Panther will be as
bled” by the Golden Globe Andre Braugher, the black normal for him as Christo-
win for his role on NBC’s actor who won a leading- pher Reeve as Superman
“This is Us” and will “cherish actor Emmy Award almost was for me,” he said. “That
it” all his life. 20 years ago. means something. There’s
Family time is important “It exceeded expecta- a normalization that occurs
to Brown, who also has a tions,” Brown said of shoot- so you’re not so starved to
2-year-old son Amare with ing scenes for the show. see images of yourself on-
his actress-wife Ryan Mi- He also has a role in “Black screen.”
chelle Bathe. Panther,” the Marvel movie Brown says his method for
“I did not have children about the first black super- choosing roles is to find proj-
so I could see them every hero, scheduled to open ects that help him grow.
three months,” he said in Feb. 16. He’s trying to vary studio
a recent interview with The “The level of production of opportunities with stories
Associated Press. a film with a predominantly that are more independent
He said their connection African- American cast, it and character-driven. And
serves him as an actor. hasn’t happened. It literally he enjoys the challenge of
“Young people infuse you hasn’t happened. There adapting to different sets.
with so much vivacity. would be times I would be “The set of ‘Black Panther’
There is so much to learn. at base camp and you is different than the set of
Every acting school teach- would see 24 trailers lined (his movie) ‘Marshall,’ and
es you to get back in touch up one after the next, and you have something to
with the child inside of you. you would see black faces learn from both, but they’re
Once I became a parent it coming out of those trail- two different skill sets.
became easier to a certain ers one by one to go shoot
extent because I was sur- something and there’s On ‘Black Panther’ you
rounded by it all the time,” pride,” he said. “I would shoot maybe a page or two
he said. get misty.” a day. ... I’m on television
Brown, 41, plays devoted Viewing parties are be- and we’ll shoot eight pag-
family man Randall Pear- ing scheduled around the es in a day. It is a skill that
needs to be exercised.”q
Book Review: ‘Operator
Down’ is page-turning thriller
By JEFF AYERS while they find themselves This cover image released
Associated Press working with Logan and by Dutton shows “Operator
“Operator Down,” Brad his team. Since the mission Down,” by Brad Taylor.
Taylor’s latest in his best- seems somewhat straight-
selling Pike Logan series, forward, Aaron accepts Associated Press
showcases a few of the the assignment without tell-
best supporting characters ing Shoshana. With it being What is actually going on
in another tale that feels officially unsanctioned by is much worse when it’s re-
like it’s just ahead of to- his government, Aaron also vealed that an American
morrow’s headlines. Taylor doesn’t want to get her in- arms dealer is trying to pur-
worked in Special Forces, volved unless it’s absolutely chase components that
and previous novels featur- necessary. He takes anoth- could be used to piece to-
ing Logan and his counter- er woman with him instead, gether a successful nuclear
terrorism unit known as The making Shoshana jealous, weapon.q
Taskforce have always felt but the woman has keen
authentic. In “Operator knowledge he can use. She
Down,” the author show- knows the diamond mar-
cases the invisible world ket, and the case involves
of the diamond industry. following someone in the
Aaron Bergman and his Israeli Diamond Exchange
partner, Shoshana, work who might attempt to dis-
for Mossad and once in a credit the government.
