“The Best Man” came out in 1999 and became an instant classic. The sequel, “The Best Man Holiday,” arrived in 2013, and now it’s been adapted into a streaming series for Peacock called “The Best Man: The Final Chapters.” The original cast is back, including Harold Perrineau as Julian Murch.
“The first two episodes pick up a year or so after ‘The Best Man Holiday,’ and then we flash forward to the present time,” said Perrineau. “Whenever we (as an ensemble) get back together, it’s like we never left. In the first film, we were all just getting to know each other and we really liked each other. By the time we did the next film, we were all a little further in our careers, but we were still basically who we are — there was nobody who was acting a particular way because they had been nominated for this award or that award. We’re all just still really close friends, and that’s mirrored in the series as well. When you watch it you’re like, oh I know these people — I want to hang out with them.”
Perrineau has one of those careers where it seems like he’s been in just about everything, from Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” to “The Matrix” sequels on the film side, to shows including “Lost” and “Claws” on the TV side. And of course an early major role: The HBO prison drama “Oz.”
