Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCourtney B. Vance has a gift for tapping into rich and complex, larger-than-life men.
In 2016, for example, he won an Emmy for his portrayal of real-life lawyer Johnnie Cochran in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”; just last year he took on the role of George Freeman in HBO’s “Lovecraft Country”( for which he now sees a SAG Award ensemble nomination) and now he can be seen as Pastor C.L.
Franklin aka the titular Queen of Soul’s father in National Geographic’s four-night event, “Genius: Aretha.”The generation that he came from were sharecroppers, and the idea that a Black man could actually go from sharecropping with no future to being the “Million-Dollar Voice” and having.
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