Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

We're dealing with that question now, in the media. How does the judicial system work? There's never going to be a clear-cut answer, but it's a conversation and a conflict in the community. It's not a white thing or a black thing. It's a society thing and a culture thing, and we've gotta figure it out.

I don't have social media so I'm kind of in a bubble, but I hear there's a lot going on.

When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.

Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.