Written by co–executive producer Coleman Herbert, this episode employs the tricky but effective stratagem of walking backward through one of the show’s major revelations: How did Roxanne pull off such a huge grift? For folks who lost the thread, let’s recap in normal chronology.įirst off, most of Roxanne’s stories were true. Then again, maybe murdering multiple strangers to defend your Caucasian PriceMax changes a person more dramatically than I previously assumed. At the very least, she’d have gotten somewhere with her good-for-nothing boss.
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(How did she learn how to shoot, let alone well enough to teach a roost of 20-somethings? The answer can’t just be television, right?) Is it possible Missi Pyle is simply too good an actress? If Roxanne had been that good at changing her entire personality, she probably would have been an actress herself. We never once see the vulnerable, 2004-Kohl’s-sales-rack-wearing woman Roxanne embodied for 45 years slip through the cracks in Detective Roxanne Benson’s façade. She speaks differently, carries herself differently, even manipulates people differently - actually, that last bit seems to be a brand-new skill altogether. In my defense, I have one criticism, if you can even call it that: Roxanne the PriceMax assistant manager plays like a completely different character from Roxanne the Law & Order cop (or should I say Roxanne the scammer?). As it turns out, it’s Roxanne, not Victoria, who has been clinging to old-world ideas about a common enemy all this time. In fact, after this week, I think it’s safe to say that one could comb the entirety of what I wrote a few weeks ago about Roxanne being Victoria 2.0 and do a clean find-and-replace, supplanting every description of Victoria for Roxanne. “He has issues that he hasn’t flushed out yet, and unfortunately, that clouds his decision making.As an adult who can admit when she’s wrong, I’ll happily come out and say it: Wow, was I wrong when it came to Roxanne. “With all of his notorious acts, Marvin is still grounded,” Brown surmises. I played a lot of Nas’ ‘Illmatic’ to stay in that space and get ready.”īrown also wanted to bring as much realism to the portrayal as he could. “If I need to be where I need to be, I’ll just kind of sit and stay there emotionally and mentally, but not necessarily in character. “I didn’t try to totally escape the minute they called cut,” Brown recalls. But most of the time, we’re all just really trying to stay present.”Ĭarrying Lou-Lou out of the fire was both physically and emotionally taxing for Marvin and his portrayer, who was carrying with him the weight of Raq disowning Marvin and his complicated fraternal relationship. Or they say cut and you gotta find the Kleenex and wipe your eyes and reboot, and get ready for the scene again. “I’ve always got lots of questions… Sometimes, when they say cut, the laughter will continue. “I’m always in my head,” the Ballers vet shares. We looked so ridiculous.”Īlthough Marvin embraces violence (and driving straight at people while they shoot at him until he crashes), Brown prefers a more cerebral approach. He didn’t want to hit me but it helped create the tension. You know you want to hit me.’ London is such a nice guy. I kept saying, ‘You know what Marvin? Hit me. That’s when I started egging London on and calling him Marvin so that we would stay in character.
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We had to shoot the fight two times because the producers said it looked like a TV fight. “It was such a brother fight,” Mays recalls with a chuckle. “And that’s something I can relate to personally.”įor instance, Mays and Brown are still laughing about the sidewalk fist fight the characters had in Episode 5 that the police had to break up. “ Power Book III is different from anything else in the Power universe because it’s all about families,” Mays tells TVLine. It was also the Starz drama’s most deadly and explosive episode thus far. Mays and London Brown, who play Lou-Lou and Marvin, respectively. While fans won’t know until next week if Lou-Lou survived the attack, the drug-dealing brothers’ constant sniping juxtaposes perfectly with Marvin’s loving and inherent need to protect his sibling, according to actors Malcolm M. But by the end of Episode 8, when Lou-Lou’s life hung in the balance after Nique’s crew firebombed his house, it was Marvin who came to his rescue and bravely carried him out of the fiery wreckage. Raq’s brothers have been beefing for weeks on Power Book III: Raising Kanan about everything from Lou-Lou’s outside interests in music to Marvin’s inability to keep track of his daughter Jukebox.ĭuring Sunday’s installment, titled “The Cost of Business,” the two even took verbal swipes at each other about personal hygiene and being plugged into street scuttlebutt. 'BMF' Trailer: A Black Mafia Family Rises in Starz's New Crime Drama