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Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

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Andre Holland
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Alabama
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The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
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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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I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.
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You turn up in the morning, you get through hair and make-up, and then you are on set working until it's time to go home. And I love that. Coming from the theater, you just turn up and you're ready for whatever happens. That energy really appeals to me.
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Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
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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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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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[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!
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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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Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.
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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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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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The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.
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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 just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.
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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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