People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the show I did called The Knick. He was also with Plan B Entertainment, who produced Selma. That is how I got involved.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.