“It actually brought us a lot closer,” he said. To research, DeVaughn said he spend more time with his father (whose wife, Debbie Allen, is DeVaughn’s stepmother and is also portrayed in the series). “I had to really fine tune my basketball skills as well and become a baller again, because I hadn’t touched the ball since high school.” But DeVaughn says the physical aspect of it was a challenge: “I had to drop 30 pounds and had to get shredded,” he says. Nailing his dad’s mannerisms, voice and cadence was easy. He admits it was a little surreal to be auditioning opposite his brother, “but I wouldn’t want anybody else playing my dad except for one of us.” It was DeVaughn, whose resume includes “Snowfall,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and “Runaways,” who won the gig. ”We got so lucky that the person who happened to the best for the part was also his son, and honestly the second best guy we saw was his brother.” All of that stuff that embodies Norm in that moment,” executive producer Max Borenstein tells Variety. “We needed somebody who could really pull off that complex mix of ego, arrogance, talent, feeling threatened, being incredibly charming, but also carrying with him a chip on his shoulder.
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