Before Ghosts star Brandon Scott Jones was an actor, he played competitive tennis. But he never made it to the pros, possibly because he’s just too much of a team player. “I was taking the court sometimes and rooting for my opponent, because these were my friends as well. And the thought of competing against them just didn’t sit well with me,” he says during a recent Zoom call. “I didn’t have the ruthless factor—and that was the problem.
Curtis, whom Jones played on The Other Two, also spent most of the series as a frustrated striver—an often out-of-work actor who rooted for the success of his friend Cary , only to find that Cary was incapable of extending the same courtesy to Curtis. That part obviously hit even closer to home for Jones.