Colman Domingo claims ‘Boardwalk Empire’ rejected him because he wasn’t light-skinned: ‘This is going to kill me’
nypost.comtold 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.
Henson, he was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in the Netflix movie “Rustin,” and he’s in the trendy HBO show “Euphoria.”He’s reached the point where he no longer auditions, he told the outlet. “I became an actor that was ‘offer only’ probably sooner than the industry thought I should have,” he said. “But I decided I have a body of work.
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