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Delroy Lindo Didn’t See Sinners As A Horror Movie [Exclusive Interview]

On that note, when you work with him, what is the magic spark? Because I feel like everyone who’s worked with him is like, “There’s just something about him. He just gets it.”

Okay, but before I answer that, I will say that the work is made also for people like yourself who get it. The work is made for people like yourself who say, “No, Ryan Coogler’s not the next anything. Ryan Coogler is Ryan Coogler.” And I believe the reason that you can discern that is because you’re plugged into the humanity that we bring, your own humanity. And you know, in terms of your own humanity, that you are an individual. Your ethnicity aside, whatever your ethnicity is, it doesn’t matter. It does matter in as much as you claim that, and that’s part of who you are. But in terms of what you do in the world, don’t compare yourself or any of us to anybody else. We are all individuals forging our own paths.

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But to your question, this is such a difficult industry. Look, life is difficult, but to be engaged in this creative arena, and the kinds of challenges and obstacles that get placed in front of us because of who we are, not because of what we do, because of who we are and who people perceive us to be, the kinds of challenges that are placed in front of us that we have to navigate every single day, I’m hopeful … I kind of sort of know better, but I’m hopeful that it’s a paradigm shift. And I am thrilled to be part of paradigm-shifting work, both for myself as a creative worker and to be connected to this kind of work. 

Because I’ve said it a bunch of times over these last few days, this is why I became an actor. I didn’t become an actor because I wanted to say to audiences, “Ooh, ooh, ooh, look at me, look at me, look at me.” That’s not why I became an actor. I became an actor because I wanted to be involved with work that spoke to and changed in some way the human condition. And I know that sounds really lofty, and I understand. It sounds kind of highfalutin, but that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be involved with work that made people think and maybe, in some instances, changed the way people think.

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So, a long-winded answer, but it’s really gratifying and rewarding to be involved with this director at this point in his career, making this kind of work, and sharing this kind of work with audiences.



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