I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

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

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

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.