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How Nickel Boys Stars Brandon Wilson and Ethan Herisse Found Each Other
a Black teenager in Jim Crow-era Florida who is sent to an abusive reform school after accidentally hitching a ride in a stolen car. Wilson plays Turner, the charismatic student already ...
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Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’
But Brandon Wilson, who leads RaMell Ross’ adaptation ... the story of the now-closed Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, where dozens of unmarked graves were uncovered on the property ...
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The Real Story Behind ‘Nickel Boys’ and the Brutal Florida Reform School That Inspired the Film
Based on a Colson Whitehead novel, the Oscar-nominated movie dramatizes the story of the Florida School for Boys, which ...