'Despite how tired she is and how exhausted and frustrated she is, she still does her thing. She still goes for it. And that is amazing to me. I feel like people get to see how vulnerable and powerful you can be, despite your circumstances.'
And few characters experience the range of’s extreme highs and lows as much as Dom does; her budding relationship with the popular John Ellis is threatened by what she believes is a duty to provide her family, and she also doesn’t want to burden him with her home life. “Dom and John, first off, are so cute,” Odley says of her on-screen romance, adding, “it's so important to see that on TV because oftentimes we see the same cliché storyline — like, him cheating or just trauma bonding.
“It felt really cool to be able to see something so real,” Odley says about the storylines that depict the difference in consequences for mistakes between white and Black students. “It also sparked a lot of conversations even while filming certain scenes. I would have conversations with Odessa [A’zion who plays Joey] and I'd have conversations with Brittany [Adebumola, who plays Tamika] and Naiya [Ortiz, who plays Sonia] about the two different worlds merged in one.
Her own Brooklyn high school was predominately Black, Odley adds, and many of the fictional Grand Army kids had privileges she never did, like being able to use cell phones in the hallway. Even so, she did see similarities with her own high school experience — and she hopes Dom’s story in particular sheds light on the realities of many kids whose parents are working minimum-wage jobs.
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