Given that he played for his college team at Florida State University, you'd think Tyriq Withers' football background would've been a big reason he was cast in new sports horror HIM. According to director Justin Tipping, though, it was actually an old Instagram post of the actor's that proved to him he was the perfect person to play unwitting protagonist Cameron Cade.
"It was after his episode of Atlanta, which I saw, and I was like, 'Great', but I was actually scrolling his Instagram and I saw this clip... He was giving a speech to the cast and crew of that episode and he was so different to the character he played," Tipping, who co-wrote the new flick with Skip Bronkie and Zack Akers. "He's so soulful and, like, sensitive. So he's speaking to his gratitude and this and that, and thanking everyone and he was commanding the room. He just had that, that swagger that someone that grew up in locker rooms has. It was like he was talking to other players and hyping them up, and you can't really teach that. It's just baked into who he is."
