✅ Top Boy bosses initially had Little Simz and Micheal Ward down for very different roles

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✍ To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video  It’s been six years but Top Boy is finally back on our screens with some new faces joining Dushane and the gang.  Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo aka Little Simz and Micheal Ward have both been welcomed into the cast of the Netflix rivival as carer Shelley and drug dealer Jamie, but they were originally lined up for very different roles.  ‘I initially auditioned for my younger brother on the show which was Aaron,’ Micheal told Metro.co.uk, with the character now being played by Hope Ikpoku Junior.  ‘I came back for a recall, smashed it and then the casting director from block one to three, Raymond Green, and the producers were there and they said, “Can you come in tomorrow and read for the lead, which is Jamie?”.  ‘At that point, I didn’t think I’d be able to do something like that because of his nature. I’m not like that naturally.’  He continued: ‘Anyway, it was a ...
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