Relish and restraint come together in Curtiss Cook’s performance of the enigmatic Otis “Douda” Perry in Showtime’s “The Chi.”
Now in its third season, the Lena Waithe-created drama, compellingly showcases the lives of a group of Black working-class Chicago residents in a powerfully nuanced way.
Cook explained to the MSR, “Otis Perry was one of those young Black boys on the South Side who felt like they didn’t have a way out, but because he was smart and had mentors who looked after him, he was able to rise up the ranks of the 63rd Street mob, on the South Side of Chicago.”
The defining moment that set Perry on his path in the Chicago underworld will also be part of season three.
Perry also uses the South Side’s paucity of both full-time fathers and economic opportunity to manipulate people into his nefarious web.
