‘Dope Thief’s Brian Tyree Henry On Coping With Grief

For Brian Terry Henry, who plays his chaotic role but with the previous intention, it was strange that it was strange. Apple TV drama+ crime Anesthetic Ray (Henry), a man who was forced to make difficult decisions alongside his best friend Mane (Wagner Mora) after leaving the prison. While forming the drug Anti -Narcotics Administration agents to steal drugs and criticism, the husband leads to a drug war after stealing a drug operation in the main eastern coast. Even surrounded by danger, Ray keeps his heart and humor. For Henry, it is this beloved quality that pulled it. Here, the productive actor talks about how to direct weakness, love and loss for this role with the help of a mental health journey.

The deadline: What are some inspiration in the real life that entered Ray?

Brian Terry Henry: The loss was. I realized that I looked up and had no place to put it yet. A lot was asked about me at a time when I was dealing with this big loss [Henry lost his father, Marion Henry Jr. while filming] It was easy to put my head and work and be these characters. Anesthetic He gave me a place to expose him without having to say a lot. He gave me a place to cancel myself because sadness is continuous. You will not wake up and will be like “I am more than sad.” And if you are lucky enough, and from the stranger, you will continue to calculate the losses. Isn't this the most crazy thing? If you are lucky enough to continue living, unfortunately, you will lose people. What is the most important thing is that we rarely give the tools to overcome them. This is where you met Ray.

Ray's life was all a loss, from when he was a child to losing his freedom because he lost his love in a car accident. Then he lost his father, then when leaving prison, he still does not have freedom, because he is told that he cannot get a job or do anything. He had to reach something. The loss was something that I wanted to show myself and to anyone else he was going through. Then I ended up with a loss experience while filming the show anyway. Then it was about being able to use the tools that I gained in my recovery and trying to deal with my loss and sorrow and expand it to Ray. I knew exactly where it was. I hoped that by entering this part, this would help me and help him understand what he was going through as a character.

The humor also helped. The exhibition has a lot of humor. It is the best conductor and goes beyond the language. It goes beyond any bias you may also have. Therefore, when you peel off and get to know how close the loss and humor are to each other, it is just something you wanted to explore as well.

The exhibition has a lot of humor. It is the best conductor and goes beyond the language. It goes beyond any bias you may also have. Therefore, when you peel off and get to know how close the loss and humor are to each other, it is just something you wanted to explore as well.

Brian Terry Henry

The deadline: I served as EP in this series. How did you work with the bidder Peter Craig and the different directors – including Ridley Scott, who directed the first episode – to get everyone's vision of the show?

HenryBecause TV is strange in that you have this comprehensive story of the character, but because it is transverse, this means that you have a different way out for each episode. So, what you have to do because the actor knows your personality through and lesson. Because if the director enters the outside, then take it mainly from seeing another person to try to build the same world and make the line connected to confusion, you have to stand alone and know your personality inside and outside. In this way, you can show the director to where you are going and conducting this dialogue on how to imagine it. All managers of this offer were incredible to understand Ray's journey. But I am the person who lives with Ray every day.

I remember Mariela [Said] Carrying out episode 4, and there was this crazy scene of Mani and Rai in the back of the truck with the bomb, and you can read this scenario throughout the day, and it is like, “Well, that's what happens.” But what is really going on is that these two friends have passed a lot so that one of these friends decided to end everything. In a way to save the other friend, they believe that the best way is to detonate themselves with a manual bomb. Not only that, Peter wrote this scene now in the back of the Beck August truck, so I remember me and Wagner looked at each other. We got to this point we were thinking, “Wait, I did not do a hand bomb? I don't even know the number of seconds that you have before it explodes. Although we are facing a crisis, Marcela puts the scene for us and asks us to go only, and we were hoping for the best. But this is the type of narration of the stories that I want to do, because it was me and Agenner only, and at the head of how much I love, you have to remember the love and contact that Ray and Mani have each other before episode. Acting is a living thing, breathing.

The deadline: Kate Molgro and Feng Riams and your parents play. What bonds did you form with them?

Henry: It is a dream that has become true, right? I remember when it comes to capture and has an opinion on it. At first, I was like, “Do you want my mother to be white? Do I miss something?” Then, when Kate Molgaro was, you were like, “less.” It was interesting because you hope that chemistry will be in a place to live, but they are so amazing professional and myths that you do not have to do any work. I don't have enough to say about Kate. It is a legend. They do not make this anymore. She was interested in me in ways that I could not express. When you look at the show and see me put my head on it and hold it, this is real. We talk to each other to this day, only invite them, and invite me, son.

Then add Feng, this is a man, do you know what I mean? He can do a lot by doing a little. Perhaps it was not easy to enter the absent father's shoes this father. I remember that our first day in the group was in episode 2, and I am in prison and we are running this conversation. I wanted to meet my entire life, and I was like, the curse, is this how we will start? This is a difficult scene, but I was like, I can't back down. It is very good in this series because you see it to bring it to a low place, it is weak, dies. It is not the strong man who used to be. But my favorite part of this scene is the reflections in the glass. [Director] Jonathan [van Tulleken] I will do this when I speak to Ving, where you can see it on one side of the glass, but not my face. Then, on the other side, you will see my face, but not his face.

Kate and Fing raised this whole thing. Their relationship and love for each other were great to watch and watch them.

The deadline: You and Agener Mora are milking brotherly love. How did you build this?

HenryWe started fear. We rented it on Friday, and it was in front of the camera on Monday. My goal was to talk to him. Because I admired him a lot and knew what we were asking him as a professional actor, this was very Kamikase. He was not giving him much time to prepare. Therefore, I talked to him and told him that I loved him and respected him, and that I was a great admirer of his work, but I completely understand if he wanted to say no. He told me that he knows that he would do it as soon as he talks to me. Our first scene together was the place that we are about to steal this trap house, and dragged me into this temporary green room, closed the door, we got the front on the front, and ready for each other. It was like, “My name is Wagner, I am really afraid, and I am from Brazil”, because he had no opportunity to do any of this. I presented myself and said, “I am also afraid. At any moment you need me, tell me. I will not leave your side. I will be here with you, regardless of what.”

At that moment, we realized that there is Mane. This weakness, this feeling of care, this frustration, these things were necessary. The biggest thing I knew is that there is a need for proximity. So, then, building an intimate relationship was easy. If you look at this series, you will notice that Ray and Manny are not far from each other. They are never far apart. They have no problem tending to each other. They have no touch problem. They have no problem seizing each other's faces. I thought that proximity would not be a problem for two men who were friends since they were teenagers and should have been limited to a small space in prison. We knew that the relationship and intimacy should be there, because from a technical point of view, this is a love story. In my opinion, I and I always, this is a love story because who I am without you? Who are you in without me?

I did not meet anyone like Wagner before. I think it was put in my life exactly when it was supposed to be. I owe a lot of gratitude for being there and raising this story, for what he did. Anytime I hear about it, ascend my shoulder. My relationship with him, I want to move while testing time because it is very easy to see a black and built man in an offer that includes violence and drugs and I am such automatically, “We have seen this before.” But I don't think you saw love like this before.

[This interview has been edited for length and clarity.]