I’ve been able to explore my own creativity through this character, by building him into what I want with imagination. I actually remember the ESSENCE shoot and it was a good time, I felt like we were important because we were actually in a magazine! : Season three of TNT’s “Leverage” premieres this Sunday, tell us about your computer nerd character Alec Hardison? ALDIS HODGE: It’s funny because a lot of people think that I can do what he does… which couldn’t be further from the truth. My mom asked me if I wanted to do it, at first I didn’t want to but then I remembered that she’d given me a Batman toy after a job, so I decided to get my Batman hustle up and start working. : We heard you began your entertainment career as an ESSENCE model? ALDIS HODGE: I was a little three-year-old kid and my older brother of two years Edwin Hodge went to do a job and they needed an extra kid. spoke with Aldis as he drove around Southern California in his Prius and chatted about his key to success, playing a computer whiz and beginning his career as an ESSENCE magazine model. The New Jersey-cum-Los Angeles native has a resume a mile long, boasting roles on everything from “The Game” to “CSI,” and now he’s jumping into the third season TNT’s “Leverage,” which premieres this Sunday at 9pm eastern, as super geek Alec Hardison. What do you think? Is Aldis Hodge the sole reason you are most excited for Black Adam, or had you already grown tired of waiting for that DC flick even after the actor was cast as Hawkman? Let us know in the comments and be sure to check back for additional information and updates on the multi-talented artist, as well as even further insight into the lives of your favorite celebrities, here on CinemaBlend.You may not recognize the name Aldis Hodge, but we’re sure you’ll remember his face. With a DC movie on the way, scripts of his own invention in the works, and watchmaking business, he has nowhere else to go but up. With all the stories black actors have told of their early struggles in Hollywood, forced to portray a stereotype on a repeated basis, it truly is inspiring to see Hodge refuse such a career and go on to achieve the success is he is known for today. There are jobs I didn't take, auditions I didn't go on. what I'm doing here, and demanding more of this career for me. It can't just be for the sake of 'this is all we see you as.' Now, 30 years in the game, I've spent this entire time trying to figure out. Like, that's cool and all, but it has to have a purpose. I was like: Black people are more than this. And I remember, I was always a science nerd. When I was a teenager, all I was getting was, like, thug role auditions and athlete role auditions. During an interview with NPR while promoting the 2019 Showtime miniseries City on a Hill Hodge explained this even further in the following excerpt: He also commented on how deeply it has influenced the roles he chooses, especially in recent years. He Has Been Reevaluating His Relationship With The IndustryĪldis Hodge has gone on record about how society's expectations of him as a person of color would influence his self-made transformation into a jack-of-all-trades. However, it was Aldis who appeared in the action franchise again as a different character, supposedly, in A Good Day to Die Hard from 2013. Edwin has a smaller role in the 1995 sequel as a student whose school is suspected to be under attack from said terrorist. Jackson) becomes the reluctant aid to John McClane (Bruce Willis) against a vengeful bomber (Jeremy Irons) in Die Hard with a Vengeance. When he was 9, Aldis played young Harlemite Raymond, whose uncle Zeus Carver (Samuel L. The siblings, who are just one year apart, can even share the same movie as each other's big screen debut - and big one, it certainly was. Aldis Hodge And His Brother, Edwin, Made Their Film Debuts Together In Die Hard With A VengeanceĪcting is a passion that Aldis Hodge shares with his older brother Edwin Hodge, who has also played military personnel (such as in 2018's Bumblebee and on the History Channel series Six) and is part of the Blumhouse family after appearing in two installments of The Purge franchise.
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