Even Sterling K. Brown is not without his fair share of wild teenage stories.
The actor, 48, stopped by Good Morning America on Tuesday, Jan. 28 and Robin Roberts took some time to ask him about his teenage years, as she teased, “I hear that as a youngin’, you had a little bit of a run-in with the law.”
In his defense, the This Is Us alum clarified he wasn’t “out there in these streets like that,” but he did get pulled over while driving one time, which ended up having more complications than he expected.
“A motorcycle cop pulls me over. He goes, ‘Do you know why I pulled you over?’ And I was like, not even being sassy, ‘No sir, I don’t.’ I wasn’t speeding or anything. He goes, ‘I bet you your friend in the backseat does.’ He goes, ‘Oh, ‘cause I threw a cigarette out the back?’”
Brown said his friend, Brian Brooks, who they called “Donk, ‘cause he talks like a Donk,” told him he’d “pay” for the ticket since he was blame.
“I go off to college, I come home to renew my license. I had a warrant out for [my arrest],” Brown recalled, due to his friend not paying the ticket. “Your boy had warrants at 19. That’s not a good feeling. I’m not that dude. I never paid it off.”
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Brown stopped by GMA to promote his new Hulu thriller series Paradise, which he stars in alongside James Marsden and sees him reunite with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman.
He told PEOPLE that Fogelman, 48, “has a way” with the worlds he creates — which was on display as the pilot episode shocked fans with its twists and turns.
“I said, ‘You son of a gun. You did it again.’ Because I forgot who I was dealing with,” he said of Fogelman’s vision for Paradise. “I thought I was just looking at a political thriller and I’m trying to figure out who killed the president. And that was enough. I was totally satisfied.”
Instead, he teases that the series is really about “something completely and totally different” than what meets the eye, which is that his character, Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins, is the primary suspect following the death of President Cal Bradford (Marsden).
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It was rewarding, too, for him to reunite with Fogelman, since he brought along much of the team from This Is Us.
“It’s pretty much all of my crew from This Is Us is on this show,” Brown said. “The same hair and makeup department is there. It feels familiar and different at the same time … We all get a chance to do it together. All those things combined together to make a sort of perfect reunion.”
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The first three episodes of Paradise are now streaming on Hulu.
