{"id":9131,"date":"2010-02-19T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2010-02-19T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:24:49","slug":"miller-supports-diversity-on-and-off-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/02\/miller-supports-diversity-on-and-off-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller Supports Diversity On And Off Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CSI: Miami<\/i> actor <b>Omar Miller<\/b> (Walter Simmons) stars in the current film <i>Blood Done Sign My Name<\/i>, which is based on the true story of racial injustice in a small town in North Carolina during the 1970s. The actor and his family moved to Orange County, California in the 1980s, and &#8220;we were the only black family on the block,&#8221; Miller told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaweekend.com\/article\/20100219\/ENTERTAINMENT02\/2210308\/-1\/health\/Who-s-News-Omar-Mills-Drea-de-Matteo-%3Ci%3EWhat-Not-to-Wear%3C-i%3E-birthdays-and-more\">USA Weekend<\/a>. Now that he&#8217;s an adult, diversity plays a role in &#8220;every decision that I make in my work and how I am as a person. That&#8217;s why I really think that people take to me on the screen. I&#8217;m not glamorous. I don&#8217;t look like a movie star per se. I look like a regular person who they may know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI: Miami actor Omar Miller (Walter Simmons) stars in the current film Blood Done Sign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2907],"tags":[2970],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-m","tag-miller"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-m\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: Miami<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: Miami","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}