Comedy Central’s “South Side” co-creator Bashir Salahuddin says he refuses to satirize disgraced former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on his series about the lower-middle class life in Chicago. In an interview with TheWrap, he characterized the case of the actor indicted by a Chicago grand jury on charges related to faking a hate crime as “embarrassing.”
“No man,” Salahuddin told TheWrap about potentially referencing Smollett’s reported attack on the show. “It’s a straight-up tragedy.”
Salahuddin was born and raised in the South Side, the setting for the show that’s now in the middle of its first season. The show follows two streetwise employees of a rent-to-own appliance store, Kareme (Kareme Young) and Simon. Both characters live in Englewood and just graduated community college after eight years.
Kareme and Simon both live to make a dollar on their various side hustles, and they’re not alone. There...
“No man,” Salahuddin told TheWrap about potentially referencing Smollett’s reported attack on the show. “It’s a straight-up tragedy.”
Salahuddin was born and raised in the South Side, the setting for the show that’s now in the middle of its first season. The show follows two streetwise employees of a rent-to-own appliance store, Kareme (Kareme Young) and Simon. Both characters live in Englewood and just graduated community college after eight years.
Kareme and Simon both live to make a dollar on their various side hustles, and they’re not alone. There...
- 8/20/2019
- by Omar Sanchez
- The Wrap
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