Have you ever been watching the MGM+ drama ‘Emperor of Ocean Park’?
Primarily based on Stephen L. Carter’s best-selling debut novel, Emperor of Ocean Park stars Academy Award-winning actor, Forest Whitaker as Decide Oliver Garland, a strong patriarch whose dying leaves his youngsters with a mess of unanswered questions and hazard looming from exterior forces. The dramatic sequence additionally stars Grantham Coleman, Paulina Lule, Tiffany Mack, Bryan Greenberg, Torrey Hanson, Keith Powers, and Jasmine Batchelor. Tiffany Mack performs Garland’s daughter Mariah, a former journalist. Whereas Bryan Greenberg performs Mariah’s rich husband Howard Denton. BOSSIP’s Sr. Content material Director Janeé Bolden spoke with Tiffany Mack and Bryan Greenberg about taking part in the ultra-rich Dentons within the MGM+ drama.
“Personally I don’t come from that, so it was very nice to play in that world,” Greenberg instructed BOSSIP. “Our entrance into the present we drop in on a helicopter. Our home we obtained to shoot in was wonderful, it was wanting over a lake. I believe it was the identical home that they really shot the present Empire in, so it’s simply cool to love be capable of play on this world of luxurious. However I believe finally you recognize I imply the cash is enjoyable and all the things however I believe what was the good about taking part in this these characters for me, as Howard Denton, was simply the love that he has for Mariah. They like huge issues, they’ve a giant home, they’ve a giant household, they’ve a giant life which raises the stakes for all the things and for particularly for Mariah’s journey that she’s about to go on, so she’s risking so much and he or she goes down the rabbit gap.”
“I really feel like Mariah was not born into poverty,” Tiffany Mack chimed in. “I believe actually this was like a pure trajectory for her at the least in her thoughts. I don’t see a world the place she would have anticipated or accepted something much less for herself than having the ability to stay as lavishly as she does. Though I believe that the profession and all that stuff is the place she is feels that she’s missing.”
Talking of that profession, Mariah is a former journalist (a Pulitzer prize-winning one at that) who settled into the function of monied housewife as a result of publishing layoffs — however her father’s dying and the next confusion that follows revives her investigative expertise.
“For me this was simply such an thrilling function,” Mack instructed BOSSIP. “I believe she’s actually a dynamic character and to get to discover her interior life, it’s at all times enjoyable — a whodunnit or a thriller and to kind of observe that alongside and I believe audiences actually take pleasure in that, I actually take pleasure in that as an viewers member. We’re clearly based mostly on a guide however I used to be at all times ready to see [what would happen] as a result of we deviated fairly a bit from the guide and I didn’t see the place our story was headed.”
At it’s core, Emperor of Ocean Park is a household drama and at instances Mariah and her brothers Talcott and Addison maintain extraordinarily opposing views about tips on how to proceed following their father’s dying, however as in any state of affairs, Mariah maintains her very robust persona.
“That’s households proper?” Tiffany mentioned. “Throughout the audition course of I shared with our producers that I’ve two brothers. It’s very a lot perceive a variety of the dynamics that play the place you battle laborious however you’re keen on laborious you make up laborious you recognize and also you experience laborious for one another on the finish of the day.”
Whereas in our eyes, Mariah is probably the most formidable of the Garland siblings, she has a husband and kids to consider as effectively. Whereas her husband desires nothing greater than to help his spouse throughout her time of grief, as soon as he witnesses his youngsters’s lives being threatened he has no alternative however to begin to create some boundaries.
“Some of the fascinating issues about what attracted me to the challenge was their relationship,” Bryan Greenberg mentioned. “Mariah, she’s clearly grieving, I believe Howard is making an attempt to stroll that superb line of being respectful of her loss, like all husband would, and I believe Howard additionally beloved the choose as effectively, so it’s a robust blow to the household, however he’s making an attempt to keep up their life and their youngsters, of their life-style and he can see Mariah slipping down this path. She’s such a robust girl and as somebody who’s married to a robust girl, I may undoubtedly relate to this. It was a very enjoyable dance that we obtained to play of like, ‘OK right here’s right here’s some extra rope, right here’s a little bit bit extra rope again. OK that’s superb it’s your rope. I don’t even know why I touched it. I’m so sorry.’”
The primary three episodes of Emperor of Ocean Park are streaming now on MGM+