Jaden Smith's career has opened up a new role for him to fill. Baz Luhrmann's new TV series sets the stage for the origins of the hip-hop world. Smith made his major role debut in the 2006 film The "Pursuit of Happyness" as Christopher, the son of Chris Gardner and then evolved into Jackie Chan's "Karate Kid" sidekick.
Now, Jaden Smith sports a full Afro, a glitzy vest, sneakers and striped pants in the highly anticipated Netflix musical series titled "The Get Down." Jaden will play a graffiti writer, named Marcus "Dizzee" Kipling. Dizzee is a psychedelically talented and enigmatic graffiti writer raised in the South Bronx. He's going to lead the upcoming TV chronicles with a set of unknown Bronx actors. Imagine the 1970's where hip-hop is still at its early ages.
The 1970's was filled with parties, colorful discos, disco gears and lots of hip-hop fashion. It provides a colorful look into the past. The Wrap has it that Luhrmann wanted to focus on the boroughs' culture and how hip-hop was born. Vogue had a sitdown with Luhrmann, and the showrunner revealed that Grandmaster Flash was the consultant on the series. The rapper said, "I'm going to open up all my secrets [to him]."
"The world needs to know that the seventies were a blueprint for everything in hip-hop," Flash told Vogue of the 13-show series, featuring a soundtrack mixed with songs new and old. It's a musical drama television series fit for a flashback into the past. The first season will be thirteen 1-hour episodes in length and produced by Sony Pictures TV.
Get ready for the first six episodes of "The Get Down" which premieres Friday, August 12.
