‘B-Boy Blues’: Jussie Smollett returns to spotlight with directorial debut of BET+ film
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After a controversial past couple of years, former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett is making his return to the TV and stream screens, but this time, behind the scenes.
The embattled actor will now be directing a highly-anticipated BET+ feature, “B-Boy Blues,” a love story involving two men in the LGBTQ community. The show will premiere on June 9.
According to IMDb, the storyline for B-Boy Blues is “class and culture clash when a college educated journalist from Brooklyn and a homeboy-bike messenger from Harlem fall in love.”
The indie film is an adaptation of a James Earl Hardy novel, starring Timothy Richardson, Brandee Evans, Heater B, Marquise Vilson, and Jabari Reed. VH1’s Love and Hip Hop’s Mona Scott-Young is one of the producers. It debuted last year at the 2021 American Black Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Feature Fan Favorite Award.
“Through our content slate, we are intentional about representing the fullness of the Black experience, including that of the LGBTQ+ community,” said BET+ executive vice president Devin Griffin in a statement. “‘B-Boy Blues’ is an artful, heart-rending film about the complexity of love – something we all can relate to.”
Smollett wrote the script for the project with Hardy, and also financed the film with Cleveland-based radio broadcast investor Tom Wilson for A SuperMassive Movie.
It’s good to see him getting back to business.
As we all can remember. Smollet was convicted after jurors found him guilty of creating an elaborate hoax in 2019 claiming he was the target of a racially and homophobic related attack. The disgraced actor was sentenced to five months in prison, 30 months probation and ordered to pay a $25,00 fine and $120,000 in restitution.
He was released from prison in March after serving just one week behind bars.
Has he apologized for his actions or taken any responsibility for his situation? Any accountability at all? I hear songs, family making speeches on social media, now it’s he’s made a movie about the gay experience let’s move on. But again no accountability, no apology but “we “need to move on and support him. Mr. Smollett has unfinished business when he handles that , maybe he will deserve support.