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I Was Sometimes Called 'coconut' When I Was At School.

Considering How Pervasive Interracial Marriage Is, Certainly In American Society, It Is Rare We Get To See It Depicted On Film.

I Would Make The Tea On A Daniel Day-lewis Set Just To Observe How He Crafts Roles Like He Did In 'my Left Foot.' That Was The Equivalent Of Seeing Haley's Comet For Me. I Just Couldn't Understand How That Was Possible.

I Think That Having A Black President In This Country Has Been A Seismic Shift, In Terms Of What Has Been Going On Racially In America. I Think That America Is Now Engaging With How We Have Come To This Point.

I Basically Enjoy Doing Films That Are About Something, That Have Complex Roles That I Can Sink My Teeth Into. Basically, I Gravitate To Things That Scare Me. They Might Be Things That I Don't Think I Know How To Play. I Like Trying To Find Within Me Where This Character May Exist. Whether Is It Is A Fictional Character Or Not I Am Not Motivated By That. It Is More About How Challenging It Is. It Is Just So Happens That The More High Profile Things I Have Done Have Been Historical Characters.