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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Sing Sing Star Clarence Maclin on the Healing Power of Acting

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The breakthrough actor joins Rebecca to chat about performing alongside Coleman Domingo, how embracing theater and vulnerability changed his life, and what’s next in his acting career.

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:02.0

welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Bay and D'Nity Fair.

0:06.0

I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.

0:11.0

And the Oscar goes to.

0:13.0

And the Oscar goes to the winner.

0:17.0

It's a tie.

0:18.0

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know.

0:25.0

Ma, I just want an Oscar. In a world riddle with formulaic prison films, Sing Sing stands out as something special. The tired cliches are out the door to Sing, by design. Greg Kudar, the film's director, got the idea from reading an article about rehabilitation

0:55.9

through the arts, a real program that brings creative outlets like music, poetry, dance,

1:01.1

and theater to prisons. Most of the cast of Singh are alumni of the program, playing

1:06.9

previous versions of themselves in prison. In fact, the breakthrough star of the film,

1:12.0

Clarence Devineye Macklin, does just that.

1:15.3

One day I came across a book, man.

1:17.4

I'm on keep locking and myself.

1:19.4

So I had shit else to do.

1:20.9

So I got this book cracked it open and some of the things the brother was

1:24.8

seeing in the book really resonated with me man I mean the brother said what the brother

1:28.8

said he said when we are born we cry because we're born to a stage of fools.

1:39.0

And I said, whoever wrote this man, had it did a bed before.

1:45.0

You know?

1:47.0

So King Lear just fell off of a library card and you just having to pick it up and read a few pages.

1:54.5

Yeah, she's funny, right?

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