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We all know Drake as a rap superstar and maybe a bad luck charm for Serena Williams. However, everybody has to start somewhere, and Drake began, as most do, on Canadian teen soap opera Degrassi: The Next Generation. The erstwhile Aubrey Graham played Jimmy Brooks, a basketball player who, in classic soap opera fashion, ended up in a wheelchair after getting shot. As Drake is a divisive figure, you may be wondering what he was like to work with back in the Degrassi days, and you may be secretly hoping he was a jerk. Well, in the opinion of one of his fellow Degrassi alumni, that couldn’t be less of the case.
Chloe Rose portrayed the soccer playing, newspaper editing, codeine overdosing Katie Matlin on Degrassi, and she recently discussed Drake, and his relationship with the show and its cast, while promoting her upcoming movie Hellions. Rose says the entire cast is “really, really close” and further elaborated upon the niceness of Drake.
“Some of his old cast mates made this web series called We Are Disorderly and he came to the screening and it was so exciting, and at the Royal, such a small little theater, and it was very cool to see him still supporting his friends from way back in the day,” she said. “I think he still loves Degrassi as much — maybe not as much as we love him.”
Imagine how you would react if some old coworkers of yours tried to drag you to some show they were putting on, and then add on top of that all the cool stuff a celebrity the magnitude of Drake could be doing. Sounds like a solid guy to us. Of course, Drake also is the guy who famously rapped about “starting from the bottom.” How does Rose feel about that?
“Yeah, sometimes we joke about that, like Degrassi’s the bottom, no, but he like, is always super like gracious and wonderful about it, and supports it still, he’s never like, ’I was never on that show I’m a rapper, what are you talking about,’ so, we appreciate that. Thanks Aubrey.”
Thanks Aubrey, indeed.
(Via MTV)
