As for his first experience on a hit TV show: "It's a wonderful experience being a young actor, being a black actor, and being able to get good writing, goodscripts to enact, it's a lovely thing, " Hill says.
He wrote 14 pages of a novel in a joltingly weird voice and emailed them to Mr. Salerno, a writer-producer who was trying to help him get a movie that could be made outside the usual studio development process, where goodscripts often go to die.