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Lionel Boyce Is The Bear’s Secret Sauce
As Marcus on The Bear, Boyce is the guy everyone wants to be around. He’s having that effect on Hollywood too.
“And then when I saw him in 12th grade, I walked up to him like, ‘Hey, you went to First Church, huh?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, how’d you know?’ I was like, ‘Because I could never forget that moisturized skin color you got, brother.’ And he was like, ‘What the fuck wrong with you?’ But it’s true.” In the class at Westchester High School, their relationship grew from small talk and dapping each other up in the hallways to connecting over their love for Chappelle’s Show, Napoleon Dynamite, the Wayans brothers’ Scary Movie franchise, and Adult Swim. A drama-class prompt assignment in their high school drama class deepened their bond: They were instructed to build a story by writing in two-minute intervals with a partner; after the two minutes were up, one person would pass the script to the other, who would add on to what came before. By 2009, that last year of high school, Tyler and his rap collective, Odd Future, were already establishing themselves in Los Angeles’s underground youth culture, releasing group mixtapes, performing, and dropping skate videos on YouTube.
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