Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineAfter his experience with Watchmen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been thinking a lot about disruption.
In the show’s timely exploration of systemic racism in America, the actor plays two roles—stay-at-home dad Cal, and the Black god known as Doctor Manhattan.
The HBO series’ reception was so powerful that it changed the way he thinks about art, and the roles he wants to pursue going forward, Abdul-Mateen says. “Watchmen was the first thing that I was a part of, where I saw its potential to be a change agent.
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