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Glynn Turman Auditioned for Han Solo in ‘Star Wars’: ‘I Would Like for Harrison Ford to Give Me Some of Those Residuals’
From Broadway beginnings as a tween to a lasting legacy, Glynn Turman’s six decade journey as an actor leads to the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Glynn Turman — whose incredible six-decade career spans from “Peyton Place” and “Cooley High” to “The Wire,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Rustin” — is finally getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When Glynn Turman was a kid, his family moved from Harlem to Greenwich Village, where his mother fell in with a vibrant circle of artists — James Baldwin, Odetta, Josh White. “I made decisions based on what I wanted to be a part of, and I carried that mantle because I’d started off with these giants — Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lorraine Hansberry — who fought the good fights,” he says.
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