I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in America. I think that America is now engaging with how we have come to this point.