People Fight For Their Regulars. It Gets

Playing Somebody Who's Real, You Can Bring All Kind Of Nuances And Things To Him That You Get From Source Material And Things Like That, But The More Popular Or Known The Person Is, The More Impossible It Is. To Get It Right, That Is The Goal.

One Thing That I've Been Very Vocal About Roles I Take, And My Representation Has Been Very Smart About, Is That I Didn't Go To Juilliard To Be "thug #2" In Movies. I Like To Be Challenged. I'd Say That About 40% Of The Roles I've Done Have Been Written For White Men.

I Got A Job As Soon As I Graduated From School. I Always Wanted To Bartend Because I Love Listening To People And How Awful Their Lives Are.

The Advise My Dad Gave Me: "to Know Is To Study." Get Some Training Under Your Belt, So That Nobody What Somebody Asks You To Do, You Know How To Handle It Accordingly. I Learned So Much While Working, Because I Developed A Solid Work Ethic In School. Whereas, A Lot Of My Friends Had No Work Ethic; And Because Of That, They're Sitting At Home Today.

I Did This Movie With Spike Lee Called Sucker Free City, And That Would Have To Be My Favorite Role By Far. It Was Just So Much Fun To Work With Spike And Shoot In San Francisco.