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I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

Andre Holland

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Andre Holland
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
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Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.
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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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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.
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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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Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
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My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.
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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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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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The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
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People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name it's usually Hey, Dr. Edwards! or Algernon. The most common thing is, You're the black doctor on that show! I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.
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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.
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You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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 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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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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I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.
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