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When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.
Andre Holland
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Andre Holland
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
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It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.
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I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
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I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.
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The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
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I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the show I did called The Knick. He was also with Plan B Entertainment, who produced Selma. That is how I got involved.
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I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.
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I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.
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I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.
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I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life and some of the people he talks about. I had visited the place where he lived many times so I understood innately what that was.
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Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
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You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.
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Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.
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There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.
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I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.
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People sometimes say, What is your dream role? I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.
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The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.
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I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.
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I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.
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Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
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