Colman Domingo Nearly Quit Acting After Losing Out on This Role

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After spending 30-plus years honing his craft for stage and screen, Colman Domingo is more than ready for his close-up. Considering the actor’s versatile resume, which includes memorable performances in Selma, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fear the Walking Dead, or his Emmy-winning role on Euphoria and a handful of Tony nominations, it’s bewildering that his recent portrayal of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, in Netflix’s Rustin, marks his first leading role and Golden Globe nomination. Also, this year, Domingo features in another highly acclaimed film, The Color Purple, where he plays the dastardly Mister.

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Boardwalk Empire because he was not light-skinned enough.The actor, known for his roles in Euphoria and Fear the Walking Dead, has said that he was auditioning for a role in the HBO show in 2014 when he was still seeking a breakthrough in his screen career.The role in question was a maître d’ in a Black-owned nightclub, and Domingo has explained that despite feeling that he had impressed the casting agents, he was later enlightened about a possible reason for his rejection by one of the show’s researchers.In an interview with the New York Times, Domingo says that a historical researcher articulated to Domingo’s agent that maître d’s in the sorts of nightclubs in question were typically more light-skinned than Domingo.“That’s when I lost my mind,” Domingo is quoted as saying. “I can’t take it anymore, I think this is going to kill me.”Domingo would eventually land the role of the recovering drug addict Ali on HBO’s Euphoria, and he is currently starring as the title character in Rustin, a biographical drama about the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.

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told the New York Times, adding that he told his agent: “I can’t take it anymore, I think this is going to kill me.”Following that experience, Domingo said he told his husband, screenwriter Raúl Domingo, that he was considering quitting. But, soon after that, he broke out on “Fear the Walking Dead,” and then in movies such as “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Zola.” Domingo has had further successes recently — he’s starring in the new musical movie “The Color Purple” with Taraji P.

Colman Domingo is opening up about his past experiences in his attempt to break into film and television.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Colman Domingo is having a banner year thanks to acclaimed performances in “Rustin” and “The Color Purple,” the latter of which opened to a triumphant $18 million on Christmas Day. But things were considerably different for the actor back in 2014. Despite being a Tony nominee for “The Scottsboro Boys,” Domingo couldn’t get his screen acting career off the ground.

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Naman Ramachandran Colman Domingo will receive the London Film Critics’ Circle’s inaugural Innovation Award. Domingo has been recognized for his work as an actor, producer, writer, director and musician in film, television and theater. He won an Emmy for his role in “Euphoria.” He starred in Broadway musical “The Scottsboro Boys” (2011) for which he received a Tony nomination, and an Olivier nomination when the production transferred to London’s West End in 2014.