And then you sort of have to trust the creatives around you to deliver and execute the vision that they had promised to you.” When you’re doing television, if you’re lucky, you get the first few episodes of a show. “When you’re doing film, there’s a beginning, middle, end. “You don’t always have all your scripts beforehand,” he said.

James said he’s made a conscious effort to vary the roles he accepts between film and TV, though TV roles take a little extra faith.

Two years later, he would star in Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and the mystery series “Homecoming,” opposite Julia Roberts, which debuted on Amazon’s Prime Video. James is at the point in his acting career where he’s able to choose his roles, and even sometimes help shape them as part of the production team.Īfter acting in “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and “Selma,” his breakout was a starring turn as track star Jesse Owens in 2016’s “Race,” which nabbed him a Canadian Screen Award for best actor. That’s always really exciting for an actor.” “I liked the fact that he was an undercover cop. “I loved the fact that you couldn’t figure out Thomas Baden in the pilot episode, that it was going to take a while before you fully got into this guy’s head, into his world, into his mind,” James said. James plays Thomas Baden, an undercover police officer who’s not entirely forthcoming about his role in Sophie’s life. The Vancouver-shot Apple TV Plus series, which premieres Friday, sees secrets unravel as Sophie, played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, investigates an apparent suicide attempt that robbed her of her memories. As Toronto-born screen star Stephan James crafts his career, he says the glossy new streaming show “Surface” presents a chance to go deeper with a layered character.

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