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Corey Hawkins/Jimmy Smits/Miranda Otto Bring Youth & Diversity to "24"

posted 8 years ago by paidupever
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In contrast to the multitude of players and pimps on shows like "Empire" Corey Hawkins as Eric Carter is a solid character that any kid (black, brown, white or Asian) can look up to as a positive role model. He's the youngest guy to ever serve as a Squad Leader in the Army Rangers and led the successful mission to take out notorious Muslim terrorist leader Ibrahim Bin-Khalid. The 28-year-old Hawkins was effective as young Dr Dre in the blockbuster "Straight Outta Compton" and looks to add to his impressive credentials here.

Jimmy Smits plays John Donovan, a popular Hispanic Senator who is running for POTUS. Miranda Otto plays his wife Rebecca Ingram, savvy Director of CTU, now aspiring to be FLOTUS.

With the exception of Presidents Palmer (David Palmer in Seasons 2 and 3, Wayne Palmer in Season 6) the "24" franchise has never really explored the diversity angle much and it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Also adding to the mix is accomplished young Senegalese actress Anna Diop as Eric Carter's wife Nicole.

http://www.tvguide.com/news/24-legacy-corey-hawkins-black-hero/

Your thoughts?

[–] imstillmatic 8 years ago

The cast looks amazing and Smits is excellent in everything he does could be another Dennis Haysbert and that would be great for the show .Corey is going to be huge and its a real coup for the show getting him .The only problem i have is he was so convincing as Dr Dre its will take a while to shake that off but he has some big projects coming up .

Miranda is always top quality as well they really couldnt have gotten a better cast..lets face it the last few seasons of 24 were tired the writing was poor the guest stars boring and predicable and Kiefer especially looked like he couldnt be bothered doing them .This looks like giving us the quality the early 24 seasons had and that has to be good

[–] gamer_12 8 years ago

Youth and diversity, two things that have nothing to do with quality but everything to do with political correctness.

[–] LucusNon 8 years ago

One reviewer opines that "... the show better take a major step up
from this hour if it wants to keep any viewer's attention."

www.joblo.com/movie-news/tv-review-24-legacy---pilot-312

In that reviewer's opinion, Hawkins "does an admirable job [...]
but he just doesn’t match the gruff intensity that was imbued in Bauer,"
although "Hawkins does put his youth" (there's that word again) "to good use."

[–] joetigersfan 8 years ago

Exactly. To all you pc idiots, see gamer's statement. It's not about "diversity". It's about excellence.

[–] JoeSchmoeShow 8 years ago

Well said.

[–] Susan_1980 8 years ago

I never watched the original 24 but am going to give this a shot, solely because of Jimmy Smits. 10 minutes in and I'm liking it so far.

[–] JoeSchmoeShow 8 years ago

I just left it on after the SB. So far not too bad, and will watch the next episode.