If you've fallen in love with Chris Darden over the past few weeks of The People v. O.J. Simpson, you're not alone. Our new obsession with Darden and his relationship with Marcia Clark is all thanks to Sterling K. Brown—with some help from Sarah Paulson—who portrays the prosecuting attorney. Brown visited the E! News set on Monday to dish on the hit FX series and revealed he still has not heard from the real-life Darden.
Yes, Paulson has gotten to know the real Marcia Clark pretty well (tequila shots and all), but Brown's still without a counterpart pal.
"I reached out to him a couple of times beforehand and got nothing," Brown told Jason Kennedy and Maria Menounos in the clip above. "The most interaction I've had is with his daughter on Twitter." Darden's daughter, Jenee, blogs about each episode and her experience watching the series.
"I was disappointed. Sarah had a relationship with Marcia Clark…so it was really nice to see the two of them interact with one another, and I got a chance to talk to Marcia a little bit as well. I think I was hopeful that something like that could come my way, but ultimately it wasn't meant to be," Brown said.
Cuba Gooding Jr., who portrays O.J. Simpson on the series, recently revealed he sort of had a "nervous breakdown" while filming once he realized the gravity of the entire thing. Brown told E! News he and Paulson would have conversations about their disbelief in how things went down at the trial, especially with Johnnie Cochran and Judge Lance Ito allowing him to "sort of run the case."
"There were times in which there was no acting involved because it was just frustration," Brown said. "It was full immersion, each moment I was trying to win this case. I'm going to put the gloves on O.J. Simpson, confetti is going to come down from the sky, everybody is going to lift Darden up and be like, 'Darden's the man! Darden's the man!' You just sort of Jedi mind trick your way through this whole thing, thinking that at the end hopefully success could be your option."
Click play on the video up for more from Brown about his thoughts on Simpson's innocence.
The People v. O.J. Simpson airs Tuesdays, 10 p.m. on FX.