- Actor | November 15, 1986 -
My favorite play that I did was at Yale. It's called 'The Island.'
Winston Duke
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As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor that was a terrible Hamlet. And he reenacted the performance, and for days I went on. I'd perform and do that, and I knew I wanted to do something kind of like that as a kid for awhile.
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All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new language, a new world for the MCU to play in, and that construction is then rocked to its core when Thanos enters in 'Infinity War' - get ready.
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My agents love pranking me.
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I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.
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A tall, broad-shouldered man with dark skin and a gap tooth - I wasn't the image of 'old Hollywood beauty.'
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I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
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I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.
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People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong.
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I've always had this dream that if people could pay me to watch and review old episodes of 'The Golden Girls,' that would be something really special.
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I let my people know that I'd love to work with Ryan Coogler one day because I thought he's just one of those truly auteur directors of our time. And I was just like, 'I want to work with a guy like that.' I think he has such a great understanding and distinct voice of his own.
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I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.
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