I am also producing and writing a bunch.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.

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

Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.