After crying a hate crime in an elaborate plot to boost his popularity, it appears that Jussie Smollett will be able to return to work. After he cried a hate crime in an effort to boost his career, the film industry has welcomed him back with open arms. On the streets of Manhattan, Smollett was seen behind the camera for his first role since last year’s controversy. The actor has been filming a new movie called B-Boys Blues, which appears to have gained weight since the hate crime scandal.
The image depicted Smollett wearing a colorful jacket with the words “Born to Win” and “Freedom Here” on the front. The phrase “Arrow pointing to Smollett’s pocket, which may have been holding something,” was followed by another arrow pointing up.
Smollett appears to be enjoying himself in the photographs now that Hollywood has reinstated him. His bright camouflage jacket made him stand out on set, but everyone was wearing a mask to help stop the spread of coronavirus transmission.
After being fired from Fox’s Empire following his hate crime controversy, Smollett appears to have recovered, as he is now helming a new film set in Manhattan’s streets.
After he was accused of fabricating a homophobic hate crime in the middle of a cold Chicago winter, many people thought his career was finished.
The new film directed by Smollett is a film adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s 1994 novel B-Boy Blues and will star Ledisi, Brandon Evans, and Broderick Hunter.
The B-Boys Blues is a book about two same-sex male friends in the hip-hop community. The work was one of the first to tackle such complex circumstances.
Following the February 2019 event, Smollett has been hiding out of sight. But he did speak to academic Marc Lamont Hill, a 41-year-old political scientist who is also an advocate for peace and racial equality, about how his attorneys are fighting the indictment against him.
“It’s been beyond frustrating,” Smollett said about the claims that he had lied about a hate crime. “I certainly am not going rogue. I’m still taking the advice of my attorneys and everything like that, but I don’t really see, honestly, what staying quiet has really done, like, where it has gotten me. … It’s so much bigger than me.”
Despite the allegations against him, Smollett insists that he is innocent.
“I’m going to give it up to God, but if I’m being completely honest, I don’t think that… they’re not going to let this go,” he told Lamont Hill. “There is an example being made, and the sad thing is there is an example being made of someone who did not do what they are accused of. On the one hand, when I step back, I see how [Chicago Police] played the narrative, the way that they served it to the people. That it was intentionally created to make people doubt from the very beginning. From the very very beginning, it was made to seem that I was lying about something or everything. But at the same time, I’m not really living for the people who don’t believe.”
