‘Woke’ Star Lamorne Morris on Keef’s Season 2 Money-Meets-Activism Woes, Effects of Multiple COVID Shutdowns
07.04.2022 - 21:37
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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterLamorne Morris’ Keef Knight ended Season 1 of the Hulu comedy “Woke” with all eyes on him, as the Black cartoonist was thrust into the spotlight after standing up against the white police officer who had racially profiled and assaulted him in the series premiere. Now that the apolitical artist-turned-activist has a following, what is he going to do with it in the show’s Season 2, which launches Friday?“That’s 100% the thing.
The question for Keef this season is, what else can you do? Are you a one-trick pony?” Morris told Variety. “Like, we know this thing happened to you, and we know you want to speak about it.
You get ruffled up by the police and we understand and you are having some PTSD. But now you got the bullhorn and now there’s money coming your way.
And now there’s all kind of folks like, ‘Hey, listen, we’ve got issues, too! What are you going to do about it? Can you speak about this?’ And he has to figure it out.” Morris added: “He has his friends along the way and he has his inanimate objects along the way to kind of help him along, but he’s kind of alone in that he decided to just stand on this soapbox but he now has to figure out what he’s going to do, what he’s going to say, how he’s going to rally the troops. And the question is, can he get it done?”As the “New Girl” alum said, Keef does have Clovis (T.
Murph), Ayana (Sasheer Zamata) and Gunther (Blake Anderson) and the animated figments of his own cartoonist imagination to try and assist him in navigating the world of activism. Also joining Keef’s “Woke” world in Season 2 is Laura Salgado, a venture capitalist played by “Lucifer” actor Aimee Garcia.“So we asked the question, what happens when you bring money into the
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