Joseph Sikora talks to Jalen Rose about basing his ‘Power’ character Tommy on 50 Cent
NY Post
If Dave Chappelle’s famous sketch, “The Racial Draft” was being done today, and I was representing African-Americans, I’d proudly select my next “Renaissance Man” guest in the first round.
Actor and graffiti artist Joseph Sikora, who plays drug dealer and hustler Tommy Egan on “Power,” isn’t just a culture vulture who bought a Wu-Tang sweatshirt at the mall and memorized two Tupac songs. The gritty but thoughtful Chicago native embodies the hip-hop lifestyle in the purest way with his art, his spirit and his starring role on “Power.” Tommy is by far a favorite from the Starz series, and Joseph has based some of the complicated character’s mannerisms on the show’s co-creator Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. But not the current day entrepreneur, brokering gazillion dollar deals in tailored double-breasted suits. Tommy is like the raw “How To Rob” era 50 Cent.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.