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Colman Domingo Pays Tribute to Louis Gossett Jr. : ‘There Would Be No Me, if There Was No Him’


Colman Domingo remembers his 'The Color Purple' co-star Louis Gossett Jr., the trailblazing Oscar-winning actor, who died March 29 at age 87.

The moment of legacy between two characters are shared as the world of the film and its women have evolved past these two broken and harmful humans that are steeped in generational trauma. Blitz Bazawule (standing) directs the cast of The Color Purple” with Louis Gossett Jr. (far left) and Colman Domingo (far right). I always looked to him and James Earl Jones and Glynn Turman and Roscoe Lee Browne and Paul Winfield and Morgan Freeman and Sidney Poitier.

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