The actor talks about his role in the hit new show by Mara Brock Akil and loosely based on Judy Blume’s novel.

For Michael Cooper Jr., landing the lead role in Forever was "a quantum leap," as his mentor Sanaa Lathan calls it. Still ...

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

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Netflix Forever stars Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone play Justin and Keisha in the new adaptation of the Judy Blume ...

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

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

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

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 series is a reimagining of Judy Blume's controversial 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Lovie Simone (Greenleaf, Selah and the Spades) as Keisha and newcomer Michael Cooper Jr. (On the Come Up ...

Michael Cooper Jr. has an innocence about him, the kind of unguarded charm that feels rare these days. Perhaps that comes from playing an awkward teenager stumbling through first love in Forever ...