Michael Rainey Jr Reveals Killing Ghost Was Something He Didn’t Want To Do In Power As An Actor [Watch]
On a recent episode of The Crew Has It with Michael Rainey Jr and Gianni Paolo, Joseph Sikora was their guest. During the episode the trio talked about some of the things that they had to do in the Power Universe, that they necessary didn’t want to do .
Rainey Jr talked about not wanting to kill Ghost [Omar Hardwick] in the series finale of Power.
“Killing Ghost just doing that scene was hard. It was just weird, bro it was just literally just weird like a weird feeling,” said Rainey.
“But like something I looked at and like damn, like why the hell did Tariq do this was when they was at the funeral and he let Dre know that they were on his a**. That pissed me off, I watched the episode and I’m like nah ain’t no way you at the funeral you that was a crazy moment right there.”
Speaking of Rainey, he recently talked about the most important thing that Kanan Stark shared with Tariq.
“There are so many things that Kanan taught to Tariq that helped Tariq move forward with his story in Power like is so many different instances, but that one, you know, just staying three steps ahead,” he said on The Crew Has It. “Tariq always, like I said, where I relate to Tariq in a way where he’s just observing everything, and he like keeps everything he needs to observe before he needs to make his move. Sometimes he doesn’t and moves too fast, which comes with being young, but he’s three steps ahead like Kanan taught him.”
Make sure you catch season three of Power Book II: Ghost and season two of Force in 2023.
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