His first real press run has led to a long week as he puts it, “shit has been crazy.” But now the actor-musician-who also performs a song, “Grow,” with Reed on the Detroit soundtrack-is re-centering and recuperating for a sold-out show at SOB’s in SoHo. An oncoming cold has caused him to cancel and postpone other interviews, and he nurses his throat with a Patron-cranberry juice in one hand, a hot tea in the other. A thin beard traces his jawline into a tightly trimmed goatee and mustache he wears a slight, right-facing part in his hair. You’re gonna play me real good.” Now, sitting in the Bowery Hotel’s lobby lounge in downtown Manhattan, Smith sports an oversized black Moschino tee and tattered blue jeans, paired with a silver chain necklace and gold watch. The aged Motown singer-turned-church choir director laughed at him upon first glance: “You got the swag. Smith recalls meeting the real-life Reed after filming Detroit. He is the film’s heart and soul-or as Bigelow writes Vanity Fair by e-mail, its “emotional spine.” That position makes his deterioration at the hands of an unjust justice system even more wrenching. A relative newcomer to the big screen who until now was best known for starring as Ralph Tresvant in BET’s The New Edition Story (and the 2012 Disney Channel original Let It Shine), Smith has the emotional accessibility and versatility necessary to embody the 18-year-old Reed through Detroit’s punishing 140-minute running time. There’s little denying the power of his leading performance as Dramatics frontman and Algiers victim Larry Reed. While Detroit hasn’t become one of the summer’s runaway moneymakers, Smith can count himself its breakout star. But regardless of audience turnout, says Smith, “the thoughts that are triggered are the important part, what they’re thinking when they leave.” The movie, he says, should inspire “self-examination: ‘Am I doing anything that furthers this horrible mind-set? Or am I actually helping?’” 8 at the box office its opening weekend, despite largely positive reviews. The 22-year-old Smith anticipates that the film will be “difficult for people to sit through,” and perhaps he’s right the movie ended up ranking No. He’s talking about Detroit, the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal drama about a notorious 1967 incident in which a group of young, unarmed black men and two white women were brutalized by police-and three of them were shot dead-at the Algiers Motel. “It’s truth, and sometimes truth isn’t what you want to see all the time, what you want to hear,” actor Algee Smith says.

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