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

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

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

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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 ...

Michael Cooper Jr. has an innocence about him ... playing an awkward teenager stumbling through first love in Forever, Netflix’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s beloved 1975 novel.

The soundtrack to Netflix's 'Forever' based on the book by Judy Blume, contains needle drops from Tyler, The Creator, SZA, ...

The actors reimagine the story first told in Judy Blume's beloved 1975 novel in a new Netflix series from Mara Brock Akil ...

which led to a lot of fast-forwarding Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone tell PEOPLE what it was like filming intimate ...

Famed producer and screenwriter, Mara Brock Akil, reimagined Judy Blume's popular yet controversial novel of the same name, ...

Michael Cooper Jr. is the leading man in Netflix’s new series Forever. He stars as Justin Edwards alongside Lovie Simone in ...