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How Algee Smith made his dreams come true | Renaissance Man with Jalen Rose | New York Post
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20:26Now PlayingActor and entertainer Algee Smith stops by the show to chat about his journey to superstardom, his role as Jake Winters in 'Judas and the Black Messiah' and Jalen shares valuable advice about the importance of consistency.
From Jalen: Sometimes I feel like the human connector for all things Michigan. No matter what I do or who I talk to, things always seem to swing back to my home state. My recent guest on “Renaissance Man” is from Saginaw, Mich., and starred in a movie called “Detroit” about the Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 riots.
When it came out in 2017, my brother, mother and grandmother were still alive, and we watched it as a family. That film moved us all. It was also the first time I saw actor Algee Smith on the screen. And maybe because it made such an impact on us as Detroit natives, it made me feel like I knew him personally.
I later learned he was a fellow Michigander and moved to Atlanta when he was 8. But I could see he’s got that Michigan muscle and that Saginaw hustle. In fact, the theme of the episode is “hope is not a strategy.” In other words, he didn’t cross his fingers and hope to make it to the big-time. He put in the work.
“My strategy to make my dreams a reality would just be studying,” Smith told me. “I studied what I want to do, whether it’s acting, whether it’s music. I write vision boards. You have to make sure you can see it in front of you. You know you’ve got to make sure you can see it … the body can internalize it. You can start to believe it.”
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