Chicago-rapparen Common har under senaste åren blivit allt mer aktiv som skådespelare med roller i både filmer och TV-serier. Senaste projektet i raden är TV-serien “The Chi” som kommer få premiär på HBO Nordic 8:e januari 2018.

Skådespelare i serien är flera bekanta ansikten såsom Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton), Jacob Latimore (Sleight), Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (Queen of Katwe), Alex Hibbert (Moonlight), Yolonda Ross (Treme, The Get Down), Armando Riesco (Bull) and Tiffany Boone (The Following). Även Common medverkar i serien som handlar om hans hemstad. Se trailer samt handling enligt nedan:

“On Chicago’s south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, young adults trying to make a living, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porches. But in this tough neighborhood, real dangers threaten daily to squelch dreams, and the simplest decisions can have life or death consequences. The Chi is a powerful coming-of-age drama series about an interconnected group of working-class African-Americans who remind us that no matter what, the human spirit is strong and hope never dies.”