Brian Tire Henry plays a thief who fears for his life while dealing with his painful past in cruel criminal drama “dope thief”, a role that the American actor felt like “a return home.”
The eight-part mini-series stars Henry as Ray and “Narcos” actor Wagner Moura as Manny, two Philadelphia friends who posing as DEA agents to rob trap houses. But when they raid an unknown rural house, they loosen a dangerous set of events that see them running from a cartel as well as the police.
“There was so much about (Ray) reverberating with me. I saw this man dealing with generation trauma, tried to find a way to do it, try to find a way to actually be cared for, “Henry, known for movies like” Transformers One “,” Bullet Train “and” Causeway “as he served an Oscar nomination, Reuters told.
“He let me put me a lot of my burdens that I had carried … It was definitely a different transition for me … to raise me and how to deal with my feelings and deal with my remission, deal with my fears and deal with all these different things.
“And then Ray was actually the first time in a long time that I felt I had come home. He felt like a return home in a way.”
In the heart of “Dope Thief” is the long -standing friendship between Ray and Manny and how they handle their fight.
“The show is violent. There is a lot of violence and crime and running, and you’ve got this black and Latino man, we’ve seen this kind of show before,” Henry said.
“But … We wanted to show the tenderness between these two, the friendship.”
“Dope Thief” is based on the 2009 novel by Dennis Tafoya, but the show pulls away from the book, said series creator Peter Craig.
“I liked that (tafoyas) really got two novels in one. The other half is very internal, so I liked the idea of just using the first half and then having a lot of space for invention,” he said.
“Dope Thief” premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday … Reuters
