Simone told TheWrap, “I was not familiar with Michael, but when I first met him, I was really upset because we were on our way to the first chemistry read — I think we had like two or three — and he was sitting in the window seat on the way to Los Angeles from Atlanta on this five,

For Michael Cooper Jr., landing the lead role in Forever was "a quantum leap," as his mentor Sanaa Lathan calls it. Still relatively new to acting, Cooper now finds himself headlining a Netflix television series.

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Netflix Forever stars Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone play Justin and Keisha in the new adaptation of the Judy Blume classic, but they had their own meet cute before they even landed the roles.

Fort Worth native and Netflix breakout star Michael Cooper Jr. comes to recharge. “I actually bring a lot of scripts here to start building characters,” the 23-year-old actor says one recent morning at Prayer Mountain,

Step through the revolving door of 1928 Berlin and into a world of glamour, longing, and quiet desperation as Alchemy Theatre brings the rarely staged musical GRAND HOTEL to life at ZACH Theatre’s Whisenhunt Stage.

With Champions League qualification on the line, Wednesday's Europa League final was billed as a £100m game, but the Championship play-off final remains the highest stakes game of them all.

Netflix's new romance series Forever introduces subscribers to a new imagining of Judy Blume's lovestruck teens. Created by Mara Brock Akil, the show based on the 1975 book follows Justin Edwards (Michael Cooper Jr.

Cooper Jr., 23, tells PEOPLE about working with the "powerhouse" actress and their off-screen mother-son dynamic The onscreen bond between Michael Cooper Jr. and Karen Pittman in Forever is undeniable, and they likely have their real-life connection to thank.

I f you aren't familiar with the new teen romance series that's taking over Netflix, here's a quick synopsis: Forever follows two high schoolers, Keisha Clark and Justin Edwards,