Cooper Jr., 23, tells PEOPLE about working with the "powerhouse" actress and their off-screen mother-son dynamic ...

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Michael Cooper Jr. decided to pursue acting thanks to a production of 'High School Musical.' Michael Cooper Jr., 23, was born ...

The actors reimagine the story first told in Judy Blume's beloved 1975 novel in a new Netflix series from Mara Brock Akil ...

Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone tell PEOPLE what it was like filming intimate scenes together as they played love ...

Simone told TheWrap, “I was not familiar with Michael, but when I first met him, I was really upset because we were on our ...

The newcomer plays a complicated teen swept into a love more tangled than he ever imagined in Mara Brock Akil’s Judy Blume ...

Famed producer and screenwriter, Mara Brock Akil, reimagined Judy Blume's popular yet controversial novel of the same name, ...

Michael Cooper Jr. hopes neurodivergent viewers "feel seen" as he plays a character with ADHD in Netflix's Judy Blume ...

So, thank you! I instantly fell in love with Lovie Simone as Keisha Clark and Michael Cooper Jr. as Justin Edwards. Can you ...

Producer Mara Brock Akil and stars Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr discuss the feeling of first love, as well as the ...

The series, which premiered on May 8, 2025, stars newcomers Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. as Keisha Clark and Justin ...