"It's almost kind of like being a little mini celebrity in itself, you see people doing double takes," Cherry said about the experience.Ĭherry's parents are deceased but the rest of his family rooted him on from Chicago. "Hair Love" won an Oscar for best animated short film earlier this month. "I think we really went into it with pure intentions of trying to do a small part to try and change the world and leave it better than we found it," said Cherry, who grew up on the Northwest Side and formerly played in the NFL Cherry returned home for a film screening of "Hair Love," which celebrates black hair and beauty, at Macy's in the Loop Thursday. A Chicago native who wrote and directed "Hair Love" returned home for the first time after winning an Academy Award this month.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - A Chicago native who wrote and directed "Hair Love" made his first visit back to screen the Oscar-winning animated short in honor of Black History Month.
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