


Jonathan Daviss and Carlacia Grant are two of the Black actors at the center of Netflix’s Outer Banks , and both are using the show’s final season to talk about what five years on set taught them about building a career, not just booking a role. Every project is a classroom Daviss, who plays Pope Heyward, told AFROTECH™ Culture he treats every project as a classroom. “I compare it to college in a way, it was just a teaching experience,” he said. “I was learning how to be on set, learning how to come to work prepared, learning how to expand my range as an actor, learning the things I was good at, learning the things I, more importantly, wasn’t good at and could get better at.” That’s the standard he said he now holds every new project to. “I think that’s what I want with every project, I want everybody, every project I go on, I want to learn something new,” he said. “I want to feel like I’m expanding myself. I want to feel like I’m coming to set a student. That’s been my biggest...