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Colman Domingo On Career Versatility And Keeping His Plate Full Between ‘Rustin’ And ‘The Color Purple’; “I Feel Like I Should Be Able To Play Fabulous And Very Butch”
After spending 30-plus years honing his craft for stage and screen, Colman Domingo is more than ready for his close-up. Considering the actor’s versatile resume, which includes memorable perf…
Considering the actor’s versatile resume, which includes memorable performances in Selma, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fear the Walking Dead, or his Emmy-winning role on Euphoria and a handful of Tony nominations, it’s bewildering that his recent portrayal of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, in Netflix’s Rustin, marks his first leading role and Golden Globe nomination. I prepped on my own and went to the Smithsonian for African American history and the Civil Rights Museums in Memphis and Atlanta, the one that George Wolfe curated. You give everything you can to a character, and then you pull yourself back and let them present themselves in their operating systems, so Mister and Bayard Rustin live very differently in my body.
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