Actor and musician Jaden Smith is the latest to join Baz Luhrmann’s hip-hop Netflix drama The Get Down. The Get Down will focus on 1970s New York and a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers with no one to shelter them — except each other. Smith will reportedly play Marcus “Dizzee” King, a psychedelically talented and enigmatic graffiti artist from the South Bronx. Smith, whose credits also include The Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth, can also be seen in the upcoming HBO comedy Brothers in Atlanta from Lorne Michaels. Making his television series debut, Luhrmann the Moulin Rouge! writer-director-producer, will helm the first two episodes as well as the series finale.
