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Jason Meisner
@jmetr22b
Q: Is your face important to you?
Smollett: Very important
Why?
“My character was a superstar, a pop star, a beloved GQ whatever. It was very important that I looked like black Cary Grant, not beat down.”

[TontoKowalski]

I think I've lost where this is going.

Is he sticking to his guns with the initial story? Saying the Nigerians are lying?

I thought this was to be a poor-old-me defense to plant excuses as to why he staged this, hoping for a sympathetic jury.