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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

OSCAR NOMINEE: Colman Domingo (January 2024)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Willie Geist sits down with Colman Domingo, who is nominated for his first Oscar for his starring role in the acclaimed movie, "Rustin". This nod makes him the first Afro Latino to ever be nominated for Best Actor. (Original broadcast date January 21, 2024.)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:10.0

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:13.3

I am so very excited to bring you this week.

0:16.0

My conversation with Coleman Domingo.

0:19.2

If you're just learning the name, well, don't worry,

0:21.7

you're not alone. Coleman Domingo has been doing theater he's been doing Broadway and movies

0:27.1

and writing plays and directing and doing all kinds of things for many many years, but now finally he is

0:35.2

getting his moment in the spotlight with all kinds of nominations for his

0:39.7

performance in the film Rustin which tells the untold story of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights

0:45.7

activist who organized the 1963 march on Washington. He did it. He was the

0:51.9

brains behind it. He was the brains behind it. He was the energy behind it. Of course,

0:55.1

where Martin Luther King delivered the I Have a Dream speech with Bayard Rustin standing right

0:59.7

behind him. Why don't you know the name Bayard Rustin?

1:03.8

Byard Rustin was a gay man in 1950s and 1960s America and was pushed to the side because

1:12.1

the people organizing the movements,

1:14.2

organizing the events, thought it would make them targets and

1:17.1

they would be seen as radicals.

1:19.9

And now, thanks to this performance by Coleman Domingo, as the title character, Rustin, the story is being

1:27.1

told and being told in such an amazing way.

1:30.0

I think you're going to love getting to know Coleman Domingo the way I did. I hadn't met him before.

1:34.8

My gosh, is he charming and smart and talented?

1:38.6

He's emotional about his journey and finding this place now at 54 years old been around for a long time has

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