Colman Domingo's stardom over the years has included an Emmy win and multiple Tony Award nominations. The actor is now in the Oscar conversation for his turn in the historical biopic Rustin. Despite these recent successes, he has seen his fair share of setbacks during his career.
The actor recalled 2014 as an especially trying year — he'd was back on the audition circuit in New York City despite a Tony-nominated run in the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys. He wasn’t quite happy with the downfall in his career graph at the time abs was on a verge to give up.
At the time, the actor thought the small part as a maître d' at a Black-owned nightclub was "the one that's going to finally be my big break." In a recent interview, he told The New York Times about the same. After a strong audition, the actor's agent told him that a historical researcher on the HBO series informed producers that maître d's employed in nightclubs at the time were usually light-skinned.
Domingo did not get the part in the series and that broke his heart. "That's when I lost my mind," he said. sharing that he was in the middle of a Manhattan Equinox gym when he got the news and couldn't stop himself and said, "I can't take it anymore. I think this is going to kill me."
Though that experience nearly prompted Domingo to abandon his acting career entirely, he decided not to give up and learned an important lesson about the business. "I've had many moments where I just needed that little shine or that little push or that extra scene that I know we shot, but decisions were made," he told in the interview. "It happens. You can shoot a film and do some of the best work of your career, and they leave out three incredible scenes, and you’re like, 'That could have made me. That could have changed everything.” She recallrd
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