![]() In the 1960s he was a member of the rock band Natural Selection and a blues rock group called Bluesberry Jam, which included future Canned Heat drummer Fito de la Parra. ![]() He briefly studied accounting at California State University, Northridge, but dropped out to devote his time to music. Greene began his own guitar studies at the age of 11, and was an accomplished player while still in high school, occasionally collaborating with local rock and R&B bands. Every week, our Entertainment Editor Laura Brodnik gives you a backstage pass to the best movies, TV shows and celebrity interviews.Theodore Greene (Septem– July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, columnist, session musician and educator in Encino, California. Sign up for our weekly "TV and Movies" newsletter. Godfather of Harlem premieres 1 October and is available only on Stan. New episodes drop weekly. He’s just a real artist and he created this space on the set where everyone could bring their own ideas in and I think you can see that on the show." "After watching that movie I would tell anyone who would listen he is my favourite actor. "Working with Forest Whitaker was amazing because I’d been a fan of his ever since I saw The Last King Of Scotland. "Because it’s all real life and death and with this series, it’s also an opportunity to really learn about the history of this special time and place. ![]() "I really love mob movies because of the intensity," Lucy said of her attraction to story and script. Stan has billed Godfather of Harlem as “a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history" and Lucy agreed that even though the series is set in 1960s Harlem, it contains universal themes. ![]() It's also important to know the events in Godfather of Harlem actually didn’t happen that long ago." It just made us all hyper-aware of the real situation this came from. "It was an uncomfortable scene to shoot because myself and all the other actors were sitting there with a lot of tension around us. “It was really difficult to shoot some of the scenes in this show because it’s confronting to physically act out how these relationships were looked at in 1963.” Australian actress Lucy Fry as Stella Gigante in Godfather of Harlem. But then at the same time, it’s still such an important to story to tell that is still hugely relevant. “ A lot of the people in the industry I know in and around New York are in interracial relationships or are the children of interracial relationships and the way they speak about it now does show how far we have come. “In the series, this couple are really fighting for their relationship and trying to figure out how they can make their love work in a world that does not accept them. “Stella is in this Romeo and Juliet style relationship,” the 27-year-old actress told Mamamia. It’s a situation that Stella’s portrayer, Australian actress Lucy Fry, describes as a forbidden love story that paints an important picture of what life was really like in 1960s Harlem. Stella has fallen in love with a young African-American musician named Teddy Greene (Kelvin Harrison Jr) but is forced to keep the relationship a secret not just from her family, but from the entire neighbourhood.
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