Skylan Brooks of Outsiders

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil will interview Skylan
Brooks of Outsiders.


Brooks is best known for his co-leading role alongside Amandla
Stenberg in the 20thCentury Fox film THE DARKEST
MINDS, a sci-fi thriller about a group of teens (Amandla
Stenberg, Skylan Brooks, Harris Dickinson, Miya Cech) who form a
resistance group to fight back and reclaim control of their
future when imprisoned by an adult world fearing everyone under
the age of 18. Brooks also starred as the lead in the 2020 action
thriller ARCHENEMY in which he starred alongside Joe
Manganiello. He also starred as ‘Ra-Ra Kiping’ in Netflix’s
original series “The Get Down,” created by Baz Lurhmann
of Moulin Rouge! The Great Gatsby! and Romeo +
Juliet and ARCHENEMY in which he starred alongside Joe
Manganiello. Brooks got his first big break in acting in the
Sundance 2013 film THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND
PETE, a coming-of-age story about two inner city boys who
are left to fend for themselves for the summer after their
mothers are taken away by authorities. Brooks received rave
reviews for this role and was nominated for the Young Artist
Award “Best Performance in a Feature Film” for his role in this
film as ‘Mister’, starring alongside Jennifer Hudson and Anthony
Mackie. Brooks also starred in the film OUR FAMILY
WEDDING alongside Forest Whitaker (The Last King of
Scotland) and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and in the box office
hit SOUTHPAWalongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, and
Forest Whitaker. On the small scrfeen, Brooks appeared on USA's
Network miniseries "Unsolved- Tupac, Biggie Smalls Murders" where
he plays Snoop Dogg, and others such as “iCarly”, “Children’s
Hospital”, and “Funny or Die”.