Episode 107 - Colman Domingo

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week Sam talks to multi-hyphenate talent Colman Domingo about his family values growing up, his entry point into acting, his experience coming out to his family, his early acting days in San Francisco, pivoting from theater to film, collaborating with Spike Lee, and how he envisions his career unfolding.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. Me and my friend Arial Shefeer we always say that no one has ever really held a front door open for either one of us in our careers
0:23.6	and I don't even come through the front door open for either one of us in our careers. And I don't even come through the back door.
0:25.7	I come through like a chink in the wall.
0:29.0	And I'm like, I'm not going anywhere.
0:30.8	I'm going to come back again and come back again, and you'll realize that I've always been here and you've needed me, you know?
0:36.0	So that's what I feel like what's happening right now, which is why I feel like on every platform things are, things are in a really good place right now.
0:44.6	They're not always like that. But what's important for me
0:48.0	just want to talk about this stuff is that I want people to see that there's been a lot of work and faith and taking chances and taking lots of risks to have any of the success that I have.
1:02.0	None of it's been easy. and if people look at my career
1:04.9	even just about 10 years ago they can see how different things were.
1:10.0	That was Coleman Domingo. I'm San Francisco and this is Talk Easy.
1:15.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Coleman Domingo cannot be categorized as one thing. He's a multi-hyphen and talent, an actor, a writer, a
1:46.5	director, a playwright. He's really done every kind of work in film, in television and theater. You've probably seen him on Fear The Walking Dead as
1:55.6	Victor Strand or the Nick as Dr Russell Daniels. He had a bit part on Horse and Pete. In film he's been in Lincoln 42, New LeWeds, Lee Daniels, the Butler,
2:08.0	The Birth of a Nation. He is incredible in Red Hook Summer.
2:12.6	But most recently though he's in two new films.
2:15.2	The first is called Assassination Nation by director Sam Levinson.
2:19.4	It's out September 21st. And then there's if Beel Street could talk,
2:25.0	which is the latest film from Director Barry Jenkins.
2:28.0	Here's a bit from the trailer.
2:32.0	When I was growing up, I was trying to make a connection between the life I saw and the life I lived.
2:57.0	There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country. What your role is in this country?
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