Boots Riley's ImAVirgo tells the origin story of a radical folk hero. Read TIME's review:
, has created a new supersized folk hero for our tumultuous times. The protagonist of his equally offbeat—and even more daringly radical—dark comedy, which premieres June 23 on Amazon, is a 13-foot-tall Black teenager named Cootie, portrayed with gentle-giant naïveté by
standout Jharrel Jerome. And instead of roaming free across the country, he spends his first 19 years under unofficial house arrest.Anti-Establishment types living in Oakland, Cootie’s aunt and uncle keep him hidden away because they fear what society might do to such a conspicuous embodiment of Black power. They promise to let him out at 21, but teens will be teens; he starts sneaking out. A world of new friends, new foods, and new socio-political struggle awaits.
But his guardians were right to worry about him. Despite his education, Cootie treasures the parasocial relationships he’s formed with TV personalities and the superheroes in the comic books he reads religiously; for years, they were the only friends he had.
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