It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.

In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of when the scene is cooking or not. You have an instinct about that from years of doing scenes and plays, and I think it stands you in good stead even in the TV world.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.