I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Service podcast.

Today we have none other than a great talent himself from Decatur where it's greater

Omar Dorsey. What's going on my brother? How are you?

I'm good, McCarty, how are you doing man?

Man, I am doing good. I'm sitting here in my office trying to act like I'm a lawyer and I just like to come to the office so that I

yeah I do too that's why I'm in my office too man so people see you and they be like oh you got a real job

you know we we start each one of our episodes by having our guest walk us through their career

arcs and you've been in the business now for over two decades at what point did you know that

acting would be your calling and that people would pay you to do this work that you left?

Man, I'll be honest with you. My mother used to be a director, right?

A theater director. So I used to go to, uh, when I was two and three years old, I used to go to rehearsals with her. And I've seen the people on stage and I said that's what I'm going to do when I grow up. So I'm just training me from that point on that I told I wanted to do that you know

course I still played sports and all of that but my focus was always on on

acting and a little bit on piano, but did that even drifted and just got more into the acting.

So I'll say man, but since I was a kid man, I went to perform to high school and all of that man.

So, you know, it's always, always been my focus

and it's always what I wanted to do.

And I was blessed when I was young.

I had teachers who were working actors I had Samuel Amalami and

Liz Williams' Amalami that's Jose Williams daughter.

Yeah so they were you know they do that feed the hungry Jose

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