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Grand Army: Character Guide A guide for the Netflix series "Grand Army." Noted are cast members, information about their character(s), and details about the series. https://wherever-i-look.com/character-guides/grand-army-character-guide?feed_id=895

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Grand Army: Season 1 Episode 1 "Brooklyn, 2020" [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review with Spoilers "Grand Army" with its socially mixed teens, all going through something, could be Netflix's next big teen/ young adult series. https://wherever-i-look.com/tv-series/grand-army-season-1-episode-1-brooklyn-2020-series-premiere-recap-review-with-spoilers?feed_id=690

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Odley Jean is an actress, known for Grand Army (2020).

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"Jean was born in Brooklyn and comes from a Haitian family. “I’m very Haitian American,” she said. “I go to Haiti every year. I love it so much!” Jean said that the first time she went to Haiti, she was six and then again when she was 16. As a teenager, she said she was a bit hesitant to go.

“I remember being very nervous about going to Haiti because you hear all these negative things going on, and it’s so crazy how much I believed those who weren’t from Haiti talking about Haiti,” she said, adding that she went after the earthquake. She didn’t want to talk to strangers, and didn’t think she’d enjoy her time there. Soon enough, her perspective changed and didn’t even want to fly back to the United States.

“Ever since that trip I go to Haiti every year. I make sure of that,” Jean said. She said that the city she visits, Gonaïves, is where her mom is from and it’s a close-knit community of friendly people.

Jean also mentioned that although there is poverty in Haiti, a lot of it is magnified. According to her, Haiti is a beautiful country that people would only know if they go and see it for themselves.

The Brooklyn native initially wanted to major in theater, since acting is a passion of hers... CONTINUE READING

https://roundplussquare.com/blogs/news/odley-jean-on-making-a-difference-equality-and-black-history-month

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Odley Jean - Professional Profile, Photos on Backstage -

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GRAND ARMY STAR ODLEY JEAN IS SIMILAR TO DOMINIQUE IRL

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2020/10/10104993/dom-grand-army-netflix-actress-odley-jean-interview

By Arianna Romero

"Ten seconds: That’s how long it takes to know that Odley Jean is going to be a star. As high school junior Dominique “Dom” Pierre on the new Netflix series Grand Army, a range of emotions — relief, over a much-need injection of cash for her siblings; pride, from her work as a teenage hair expert; playful irritation, over her white classmates screaming “Bodak Yellow”; and casual horniness for her crush — wash over her face within the first 10 seconds that viewers see her in the series’ premiere.

But the true power of Jean’s performance really shines through in Grand Army’s seventh episode, when Dom, exhausted from running on the hamster wheel that is her life, unburdens herself during an interview for an internship at a mental health organisation. In five minutes of true vulnerability, Dom makes clear that access to mental healthcare isn’t some esoteric intellectual exercise for her — it’s a lifeboat, one that she, and thousands of Black women and girls like her, desperately need in a world specifically crafted to work against them. Dom isn’t sad that “self-care” feels out of her reach, she’s angry. But Dom also knows she isn’t allowed to be angry. Unless, of course, she wants to fall into society’s trap for her, and be dismissed for her emotions. So Dom is simply left heartbroken.

“The first time I read it, I cried,” Jean says, sporting a cosy mustard yellow shirt, a short black bob, a bare face, and a bracelet reading “GRAND ARMY” on her wrist.

The 24-year-old self-described “mummy’s girl” is talking to me on Zoom from her bedroom in her family home in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighbourhood on a late September morning, admitting that she can’t imagine moving out of the house she shares with her mother. Jean, who is finishing her last semester toward a degree in social work at Nassau Community College and just recently started an internship at a women’s and children’s centre, also went to high school in Brooklyn. Her alma mater, Clara Barton, is not so far away from where the fictional Grand Army High School could be found — and that’s not the end of the similarities of Jean and Dom’s experiences. “It’s a topic that a lot of my friends talk about and I grew up talking about,” Jean continues of her series-defining monologue. “It gave me chills.”

When audiences see it, they too will likely get chills. But they’ll also feel invigorated, because they’ll be witnessing something unique for television: an authentic and unfortunately rare look at what it means to be a Haitian-American girl like Dom, who lives in a working- class matriarchal household that fits three generations of family members into one apartment. Dom is the kind of girl who strives for everything she has, whether that means sleepless nights or parties skipped to maintain stability for her loved ones and fulfil her own college dreams.

“It resonates with a lot of the Black girls, Caribbean Black girls in Brooklyn, I would hope,” Jean says. For her, this moment is defined by hope and a little bit of awe. “I'm still embracing the fact that things are happening the way they’re meant to happen. I did work for this, and this is just what happens when you get a leading role for a show on Netflix,” Jean says, before whispering in shock, like a... CONTINUE READING

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2020/10/10104993/dom-grand-army-netflix-actress-odley-jean-interview

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🗒️ Notes

“GRAND ARMY" Is Netflix's Newest Teen Drama: Watch the Trailer |

Premiers October 16, 2020 on Netflix

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5 Things We Bet You Didn't Know About Grand Army Star Odley Jean

https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/who-is-odley-jean-47895909

Meet Odley Jean, Netflix's New Rising Star and '90s Fashion Aficionado

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/meet-odley-jean-netflixs-rising-040000822.html

Odley Jean - IMDb

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