I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.