Despite being married for 19 years, Bill Bellamy has made a career out of embodying the fine, tall, dark-skinned, player-type in just about every movie we love.
Remember when he played the attractive-yet-scheming friend in Love Jones? Or when he got caught dating just about everyone in LA in How To Be A Player?
Bellamy, who’s now starring in Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, told ESSENCE he was very intentional in making sure he took roles that represented Black men, especially ones of the darker variety, in a way to be admired.
If anyone does, the actor understands that “if you looked a certain way, life was a little easier for you.” “Obviously you are aware of the color issue, but for me, I never let it bother me.
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