“I’ve been playing piano since I was 4 years old. “I also look at Thelonious Monk,” he added. “We’re talking about a man who was a football player at Syracuse, an opera singer, an actor. “I’m a 6-2, 235-pound black man,” he said. You have moments I never would have taken if not given those moments.”Īs for who he would like to play in a biopic, Dorsey first brought up Paul Robeson.
“It’s not just ‘let’s get this shot and we’re done,’” he said. When asked about the difference that DuVernay’s celebrated hand-picked all-female directorial crew provides, the Atlanta native had one word - patience. “The reach has been really that long,” he said, “especially social media.” Now when he goes out and does press, women are like Hollywood this and that. My brothers, father, my uncles, you look like those guys … and you look like a lot of women’s men.” Recalled Dorsey: “She said, ‘I want to see you as a leading man, not just a character actor who’s on the fringe, because you’re like every man who’s ever been in my life. Dorsey is turning heads these days as the loving, earthy Hollywood Desonier on the hit OWN series “Queen Sugar.”Īpparently it was all part of a purpose his “Selma” director Ava DuVernay had for the actor ending a run this weekend in “Barbecue” at the Geffen Playhouse. With credits mostly consisting of tough guys in dramas like “The Blind Side,” “Django Unchained” and “Ray Donovan,” Omar J.
