The
Snowfall star, 40, told
theGrio exclusively on Monday that he has empathy for Jerome, Franklin’s streetwise uncle who is now caught up in the drug game. During episode 8, Jerome is faced with the heartbreaking reality of the crack epidemic when his longtime love, Louie (
Angela Lewis), is shot at a funeral.
Overcome with grief, Jerome decides to hunt down the people responsible and take them out by any means necessary.
“Personally, I feel like cooler heads usually are best to prevail, but I can understand that,” Joseph reveals. “I think there’s a few things that hit the primal level in any man or woman, when it comes to their family. When it comes to the things that is most important to them.”