Colman Domingo is disenchanted in regards to the lack of awards buzz for ‘Rustin’.
The 54-year-old actor performs civil rights activist Bayard Rustin within the biopic and admits that he was left dismayed after listening to that so many individuals had not seen the flick regardless of its important acclaim.
In dialog with filmmaker Ava DuVernay for Vanity Fair, Colman stated: “Now, my question is this, Ava, because I always think, is it about the certain eyes that are able to land in our films? Because I literally went into a dinner party the other night and I was struck by the amount of people that still hadn’t seen ‘Rustin’.”
He continued: “I’ve seen ‘Oppenheimer’, I’ve seen ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, I’ve seen ‘Saltburn’. I’ve seen all these things because I think I’ve always been groomed knowing that I look at stories outside of my experience.
“But I feel there’s a big contingent of people that have to be instructed, such as you’re saying with advertising {dollars}, that, ‘This has one thing to do with you.'”
‘Rustin’ is directed by George C. Wolfe and follows the charismatic activist as he organises the famous March on Washington in 1963 – although Domingo had a “disaster of religion” about the movie launching during the SAG-AFTRA strike that left him “sidelined” by being unable to publicise the work.
The ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ actor told IndieWire: “At some level, actually, I actually did have a disaster of religion the place I believed it was lasting too lengthy, the place I couldn’t speak in regards to the movie and why I care about it and the way I led it and all that stuff.
“And honestly, I got a little depressed. And I thought, ‘Why me?’ This is such a momentous occasion and something I care about so deeply. My first leading role in a film, and I thought, ‘Well, why must I be sidelined?'”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
