And welcome to another special episode of the McCarty Sellers podcast. Today I have a legend.

I mean, I guess that's the only way that you can describe it.

Someone who has taken his art to an entirely another level.

Mr. Courtney B. Vance, how are you doing today, my brother?

You know, I'm a little tired.

We have begun the process of pressing forward with 61st Street and it is but it is all good the

project is is so you know near and dear to all of our hearts and we just want people to you know

get ready for the journey because it is it is a journey and excited.

I'm excited for it as well.

You know, one of the unique things about our show

is we start them all kind of the same way by having our guests walk us through

the arc of their career to introduce them to our listeners but people know you so

we won't necessarily do that I would like listeners though to hear about the moment when you decided that acting would be your gift and your craft

What was the moment when you realized that acting would be your calling and talk about your first breakout role?

I didn't know what I was about to do. I was all I knew is that I wasn't

going to settle for not being happy with what I did. My dad, my mother was a

librarian and so we grew up in the library as we

in Detroit, the library. We grew up in the library and I, my sister and I's love of learning is fixated right there.

The museums and the library is the main library

was, all the museums were around the main library in Detroit.

But I didn't know what I wanted to.

All I knew was that I wanted to follow my uncle's footsteps,

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