J. Alphonse Nicholson

It would really, really be hard to name one.

I think the play Freight, the Five Incarnations of Abel Green, which is now streaming on Starz network with Alphonse Nicholson is a play that really sort of brought me.

So I've been doing a lot of solo performances over the years, starting with Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Breakdown with Guillermo Reyes, and that was off Broadway and moving forward to other specific, you know, identity driven solo performances that those performances are markedly important in my life in terms of my ability to touch those identities and lift them into the theater experience.

So That's not a really specific answer to you, but it is how I feel.

The articles and stuff they were writing about Uncle Cliff and Little Murder.

J. Alphonse has turned out.

He's such a big deal right now.

He's good, too.

Like, you'd really need to continue that story, and I would- I like the pieces.

And, and they, the actors, J. Alphonse and, uh, Cephas Jones, like, uh, like they, they, they had a very good, uh, group of, uh, actors in, in that family.

I'd love to see more of that if they wanted to.

I mean, my only complaint with the finale is it's kinda weird how John just patched shit up with his family.

All right, take care.

All right, thank you guys so much for watching with me and J. Alphonse Nicholson.

That is it for the episode.

Hope you guys enjoyed it, and please go see If I Go, Will They Miss Me?, one of the best films of the year, hands down.

We also had the return of Shea Pritchard as Noah Macon, Hannah Christine Shetler as Maggie, Jason Ritter as Billy Macon, Jared Grimes as the voice of Marcus Stewart, and Romeo Brown as the voice of Aaron Stewart, John's brothers.

J. Alphonse Nicholson turns up in a very surreal sequence later in this episode as John Stewart Sr., which we'll talk about.

and we had henry samiri as young hal jordan and a cameo by jade ramirez as jessica jordan so trivia the reason i wanted to bring up trivia this time is because of co-writer tom king we want to talk about because i want to kind of lay some context for our discussion about this lanterns episode that was co-written by tom king because i feel that tom king's previous work are perfect examples of the story that he's trying to write in this episode so to give a little background tom king is a former cia counterintelligence operative who uses his background to explore the heavy psychological toll of violence ptsd and depression in superhero comics In 2015, King wrote The Vision, Volume 3 for Marvel, which was a 12-issue series exploring a suburban family tragedy with the Vision creating his own synthetic android family.

The series examined grief, domestic horror, and the psychological weight of trying to feel human.

and he lives with his older sister Acacia, who's played by Zaria Kelly, his younger brother Trey, played by Mark Lane III, and also his mother and father, who are married but in a strained relationship.

His mother is Lazita, who's played by Academy Award nominee Danielle Brooks, and his father is Big Ant, or Anthony Sr., who is an ex-convict who is played by J. Alphonse Nicholson.

And even though Big Ant is out of prison, He finds that he is struggling both with his life and also with connecting with his family.

And this 12-year-old boy, Little Ant, attempts to connect with his distant father following his incarceration while sensing mysterious visions from airplanes and Greek gods that seem to follow him through his everyday world.

He is certainly getting over the stigma of being an ex-convict, but he also finds that he has responsibilities for which his children, and most especially his wife, Danielle Brooks' character, Lazita, holds him accountable.

And a lot of times he isn't very receptive to that accountability until, in a lot of instances, it's too late.

And you see a lot of the flagrant mistakes that Big Ant, J. Alphonse Nicholson's character makes, and you realize that if you had flown straight, these mistakes wouldn't be an issue.

Unfortunately, he has impulses that prevent him from seeing the right path.

Absolutely love Danielle Brooks.

J. Alphonse Nicholson.

His stock is out of here.

I know P-Valley coming back.

I drove like 30 minutes out my way to go see it, too.

So, you know, shout out to them and Daniel Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson and the whole team.

That movie's great.

Beautiful film.

Yasmine Sarraf Jones as Bernadette.

That switch with her and John Stewart at Sunia, played brilliantly by Alphonse Nicholson.

Poorna Jagann and Garrett Dillahunt, oh my God, brilliant.

Yes.