Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Crooklyn”

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Where did the kids come from?

At the time, Spike Lee was very vocal about the fact that he didn’t like professional child actors, claiming child actors “stink . . . they’re not natural.” So when it came to casting these roles of all the children, Lee relied heavily on Brooklyn school children.

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