When Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson got the call for “Nickel Boys,” they each sent in an audition tape and waited. Herisse’s biggest role to that date was as Yusef Salaam of the Central ...
Nickel Boys is adapted from the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It follows Elwood Curtis and his friend Turner - two young men who are abused during their ...
RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” is as vivid as its source material: Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2019 novel about two Black boys enduring routine abuse at a 1960s Florida reform ...