The forty-year-old actor Jesse Williams, who became very famous playing Dr. Jackson Avery in the telefilm ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, will be the protagonist of the TV miniseries ‘Take Me Out’. This is the adaptation of the Broadway show of the same name, written by Richard Greenberg, awarded with a Tony Award and the story of a baseball player who publicly declares his homosexuality and in this way triggers a series of more or less disordered reactions.
‘Take Me Out’, the Broadway show
The play by Richard Greenberg tells the story of Darren Lemming, a player of the fictional team of the Empires who comes out to his teammates and to the public. The revelation
it brings to light the underground prejudices existing on and off the playing field, aggravated by the fact that Lemming is black and therefore racism also has a hand. Perceived as an anomaly within an American sports institution, our protagonist will begin to question everything around him. So will his teammates and their fans.
‘Take Me Out’ was written by Richard Greenberg at a time when no baseball player yet in his career
had come out: hence the idea of exploring the consequences of such a revelation in narrative terms and taking advantage of it to talk about homophobia, racism, classism and masculinity within the world of professional sport.
The TV miniseries starring Jesse Williams
Richard Greenberg was commissioned by the production company Anonymoyus Content to adapt their play to make it into a TV miniseries. At an advanced stage of his work he will begin to collaborate with
director Scott Ellis, who has set up several Broadway shows, has directed episodes of the TV series ‘Modern Family’ and ‘The Fantastic Mrs. Maisel’ and will also direct the pilot episode of ‘Take Me Out’ (remember that the pilot is essential for setting the tone and style of a show).
Commenting on his participation in the upcoming miniseries, actor Jesse Williams said he was “incredibly honored to be able to expand on an already very profound narrative. The questions and challenges presented by Richard’s material are enormously important and
they sink the knife into the heart of masculinity marketing. What are we really if our peace is so easily threatened by the peace of others? “.
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