Tyler James Williams, who played the lead in “Everybody Hates Chris” in 2005 at the age of 12, revealed in a new interview that a producer on the series told him he would “probably never work again” after the series. was based. On the teenage years of Chris Rock.
Williams, who won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy for playing Gregory Eddy on the ABC hit “Abbott Elementary,” told gq An unnamed producer once told him, “I’ll never see you as anyone else and you’ll probably never work again.”
“I was like, ‘Holy s—t you really just looked at me and said that,'” the now 30-year-old actor recalled.
“This Was Painful,” he said about growing up on camera. After the show ended in 2009 it thought hard about taking on similar roles.
“I realized at the age of 17 that I didn’t like the path I was on. So I decided to stop and pivot. I found a really good acting coach and I took whatever was offered to me. Turned him down,” he said.
In 2014 he returned to star in the Netflix series “Dear White People” and also had roles in “The Walking Dead” and “Criminal Minds”.
An appearance on HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show” with Quinta Brunson inspired her to write her award-winning role on “Abbott Elementary” just for him. He was reluctant to return to a sitcom, but Brunson convinced him to sign on: “We had a two-hour conversation about what we needed to see in Gregory, and when he listed the characters The ones he could have liked were already on.” my list.”
