[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.