| “ | If you're gonna do it, do it fam. | „ |
| ~ Dris to Sully during the ending of Season 3. |
Dris Wright is the tritagonist of the Top Boy series, serving as the tritagonist in Season 1-3, the overarching protagonist of Season 4 and an overarching character of Season 5.
Dris is the second-in-command of Summerhouse and the best friend of Dushane Hill and Sully. He is also the father of Erin Wright.
He is portrayed by Shone Romulus.
Biography[]
Season 1[]
Dris is first shown, hanging out with Dushanne and Sully. The trio then recieve a call from the rest of the crew after a rival gang, lead by Kamale Lewis rob them. With the crew thinking that Gem is the leak of the stash house after Kamale attacks them again, Dris visits his school to confront him. Dris loses Gem and returns to the estate.
Dushane, Sully and Dris recieve a call the next night about Kamale's location. The trio break into his house, Dris attacks Dwight and slashes his arm with a cleaver. Dushane and Sully grab Kamale and the trio place him in the back of a van. Dris beats up Kamale, demanding information about the drugs. Kamale refuses and Dris buries him. Dris then wakes up Kamale and receives the information needed. Dris shoots Kamale, collecting his first kill and buries Kamale in the same location.
Dushane recieves and accepts Ra'Nell's offer in order to receive drugs. Sully and Dris disagree with the deal going ahead and confront Ra'Nell prior to the meetup. Leon arrvies and fights Sully. Leon overpowers Sully before Sully shoots the latter. Dris picks up the back and himself and Sully make a run for it, leaving Leon to die. Dushane finds out about Sully's actions and promotes Dris to second-in-command.
Season 2[]
With Sully excommunicated from the crew by Dushane, Dris now serves as Dushane's 2nd in command. In the beginning of season 2 Dris starts taking his daughter to school, he gets stopped by the police for the murder of Kamale when the police find his body. Dushane also gets arrested but they both got let off as Kayla becomes a friend to the crew although she also gets arrested and gets interrogated. There are posters around Summerhouse about Kamale's murder, and when Dris sees the posters he advises to Dushane and tells him that they are never going to let that go.
When Kayla comes home after being arrested, Dris comes with one of the drug dealers of the crew to drop off Elijah to reunite with his mother for keeping her mouth shut about the Kamale murder. Dushane tells Dris that the London Fields member, Dwight, who was with Kamale the night of the murder was shot dead at a New Year's party. Dris takes Erin to come and see her mother in prison Mandy who is Dris' girlfriend, he lets her know about the Kamale murder and how he may be banged up in jail about Kayla being arrested. Mandy is very upset about it as she is worried about what will happen to Erin.
Dris comes with Dushane to confront Vincent for beating up Ra'Nell but Mustapha then comes through and stabs Vincent to his death and he also comes with Dushane and Sully also reunites with them to rob the Albanians who robbed them to retrieve back the drugs and money.
Season 3[]
6 years later, Dris had a stroke previously before season 3, he occasionally has seizures, while Dushane is in Jamaica, Dris is now the leader in the Summerhouse estate, Jaq serves as his second-in-command. Once Dushane returns to Summerhouse to take back leadership, Dris returns as second-in-command.
Dris' strokes effect him throughout missions, however he continues to step up alongside his team. Dris is later dismissed by Dushane and told to come back when ready. Jermaine later visits Dris and informs him that he still seeks revenge on Sully. Jermaine later makes Dris realise that whilst he's respected by everyone bellow him, he isn't by his two best friends. Jermaine offers Dris the chance to take out his two partners, Dris accepts.
Modie, alongside Jamie and Jermaine attack Dushane and Sully. Jermaine shoots Ricky and kills him. Modie later enters the house and kills Gerry. Jermaine closes in on Sully before reloading his gun. Dushane and Sully escape and the trio fail to kill them. Another setup is arranged by Dris and his betrayl is finally exposed. Sully is tasked with taking out Dris. Sully and his friend watch on one last time before Sully shoots Dris and kills him.
Season 4[]
Dris is mentioned, with Sully stating he didn't want to kill Dris but had to in order of the code they live by. Also taking into account that Dris was fine with dying and knew it had to be done.
Season 5[]
Erin speaks about Dris and how it was Sully that killed her father. Erin's mother is also released from jail, they discuss how much she's grown to look like her father.
Personality[]
Dris is an calm and collected individual, proving his loyalty to his two older friends. However, he does anything to prove he deserves their respect, attacking Ra'Nell, chasing Gem and killing Kamale. However, a year later Dris is shown to have matured and cherish his time with his daughter more often.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Erin Wright - Daughter
- Mandy - Girlfriend
Allies[]
- Summerhouse Gang
- Dushane Hill † - Best Friend, Attempted Victim
- Sully † - Best Friend, Attempted Victim, Killer
- Jaq Lawrence
- Summerhouse Members
- Jermaine Newton - Situational Ally
- Jamie Tovell † - Former Enemy, Situational Ally
- Modie † - Former Enemy, Situational Ally
Enemies[]
- Kamale Lewis † - Victim
- Dardan
- ZT
Victims[]
- Kamale Lewis - Shot to death by Dris.
- Ricky - Indirectly; shot to death by Jermaine Newton after being set up by Dris.
- Gerry - Indirectly; shot to death by Modie after being set up by Dris.
Trivia[]
- The character of Dris is Shone Romulus' first acting role.
- Dris is the first character in the series to kill directly.
- In an interview following the Season 5 finale, Romulus noted that in the version of the show that viewers have watched, Dris is not officially deceased and instead, missing. According to Romulus, Dris was written out of the show due to failed salary negotiations between his management team and Netflix. Romulus learned Dris was going to be killed at the end of Season 3 when reading the script for the first time. According to Romulus, this was a divisive decision among the production team and an agreement was reached that wanted to rewrite Dris' final on-camera appearance in a way that left it "open for interpretation". In the final showdown between Dris and Sully, Dris tells Sully to shoot him, and the camera pans forward where both Dris and Sully are out of the frame as Sully fires once. Notably, although you can hear other sounds from the landscape of the scene, you don't hear any type of struggle or sounds you would assume to hear after someone is shot. Which suggests Sully may have helped spared Dris and helped him escape Dushane and Summerhouse.
- After Dris disappears, the Police working on the Summerhouse case updated Dris's status as "Missing". Romulus notes that when they originally shot the scene, they changed Dris' status to "Deceased", but later reshot the scene to honour the agreement they made with Romulus.
- Although Romulus campaigned to keep Dris' death open for interpretation, Romulus has denied having any interest in participating in potential spin-offs or playing the role of Dris going forward.