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THE BULLETIN • APRIL 29 - MAY 5, 2021
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“The Standard”
From writer/director Phil Wall (“The
Passing Game,” “The Book Keepers”)
comes this 2020 documentary about
combat veterans who host Goruck’s
Selection, a 48-hour endurance race to test
their mettle, pay tribute to their Special
Forces comrades and bridge the military/
civilian divide. And it’s considered one
of the toughest contests on the planet,
in which fewer than two percent of
competitors reach the finish line.
“Movie: Blair Witch”
A successful Hollywood agent (James
Maslow, “We Need to Talk”) returns to
his Alabama hometown for his 15-year
high-school reunion with a client, a
starlet (Ciara Hanna, “Power Rangers
Megaforce”), posing as his mate to
impress all his married-with-children pals
in this 2021 comedy from director V.W.
Scheich (“Interwoven”). Jason Burkey
and Ginny MacColl also star.
A sequel to the 1999 found-footage
horror tale “The Blair Witch Project,”
this 2016 entry follows a group of
friends into woods believed to be
inhabited by the Blair Witch after one
finds video of someone he believes is his
missing sister. James McCune, Callie
Hernandez and Corbin Reid head
the cast for director Adam Wingard
(“Godzilla vs. Kong”).
Checking in with
DYLLON BURNSIDE
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Shrill”
“Movie: Stars Fell on Alabama”
Dyllon Burnside left the FX drama “Pose” behind
when the series wrapped production in late March. But
he believes his character of homeless teen-turned-dancer
Ricky Wintour will never be completely done with him.
“While I am saying goodbye to playing Ricky for the
here and now,” the 32-year-old Miami native says, “I’m
not actually saying goodbye to him. I think that’s one of
the beautiful things about the work that I get to do, is
the characters. They stay with you in some ways and the
lessons that you learn from their life and their experiences
stay with you. And particularly with television, which is
different from theater, it’s recorded so I get to go back and
relive it whenever I want.”
As the third and final season opens Sunday, May 2, it’s
1994 in the underground ballroom scene of New York
City and AIDS has become the leading cause of death
for Americans ages 25 to 44. For Ricky, the new season
brings challenges as Pray Tell (Billy Porter), with whom he
entered into a romantic relationship at the end of Season
2, contends with unexpected health burdens.
“He is exploring what it’s like to really find your person,
your soulmate,” Burnside says, “and what it’s like to really,
truly be in love in a mature, adult relationship. And in
The third and final season of this
comedy series about a plus-size woman
trying to change her life without
changing her body finds everything
falling into place for Annie (Aidy
Bryant), who is energized by her break-
up with Ryan (Luka Jones) and her
newfound momentum at work. But as
usual, there are bumps. Lolly Adefope,
Ian Owens and John Cameron Mitchell
also return. (ORIGINAL)
Season 3, we get to explore him in the context of that
relationship even more. ...”
“I definitely have been on the journey with Ricky,” he
continues, “and in some ways our journeys have been
parallel. As Ricky has learned more about himself, Dyllon
has learned so much more about himself. And so much of
his evolution and my evolution as a human being and as
an actor have been connected.”
Full name: Dyllon Burnside
Birth date: Jan. 27, 1989
Birthplace: Miami
Family ties: Grew up in a farming family in
Pensacola, Fla.
Education: Attended the Collaborative Arts Project
21 and The New School, both in New York City
Other TV credits: “High Maintenance,” “Peter
Pan Live!”
Movie credits: “Central Park” (2017), “Yinz”
(2018), “Prideland” (2020 documentary)
Stage credits: “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” “Born for
This”
Musical talents: As a teen, was lead singer for
the hip-hop/R&B boy band 3D