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All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.
Andre Holland
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Andre Holland
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
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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.
Andre Holland
If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.
Andre Holland
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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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 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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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.
Andre Holland
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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[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!
Andre Holland
Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.
Andre Holland
I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.
Andre Holland
Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
Andre Holland
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.
Andre Holland
I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
Andre Holland
Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
Andre Holland
Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.
Andre Holland
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.
Andre Holland
The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
Andre Holland
My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.
Andre Holland
I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
Andre Holland
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
