Jaden Smith is tired of simply being this year’s most progressive prom date, and has signed up to appear in what promises to be 2016’s coolest TV show, The Get Down. The series, which will appear on Netflix, is being directed by The Great Gatsby and Romeo + Juliet‘s Baz Luhrmann and will focus on late 70s/early 80s New York when the city was on its knees and rap and graffiti cultures were on the rise. Whilst Luhrmann has thrown the casting net wide open to ensure he gets fresh new talent, it can’t hurt to have an emerging celeb name like Jaden’s attached to the project. The 16-year-old will reportedly play Marcus “Dizzee” Kipling, a “psychedelically talented and enigmatic graffiti writer raised in the South Bronx.” He’ll be joining these four young leads.
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