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Despite everything that's going on, people need love.
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Despite
Love People Everything
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I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.
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Be Different
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It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.
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Reactions
Awesome
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We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.
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Boxes
Perceptions
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Hollywood is showing respect for all different types of art.
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Different Types
Showing
Types
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We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.
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Daily Lives
Masks
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There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.
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American History
History American American History
Hidden
Shunned
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I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.
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Bury
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I like to have fun and be myself and express myself through how I dress.
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Have Fun
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It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.
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Outlet
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I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.
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Esteem
Middle School
Elementary
Messed
My Self
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I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.
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Myself Me Long
Astray
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I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.
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Jumping
Round
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'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.
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Moonlight
Life My Life Well
Spiritually
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I had high hopes for 'Moonlight,' just off the reaction I had while reading the script.
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Moonlight
Hopes
Reaction
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I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.
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Income
Rare
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It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.
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Artistry
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A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.
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Stay True
Artists
First Place
Out Here
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I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'
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Slave
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There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
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Stereotypes
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There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.
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Religion
Generations
Ideas
Strict
Rules
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I'm getting the training I need to progress as an actor. If something comes up and I have to drop, I'll drop.
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Drop
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I'd say my heart is more in independents, but sometimes these major films come along that are pretty good, you know?
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Independents
Pretty Good
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I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.
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Meaningful
Different Types
Types
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The sad reality of it is, as black artists in the industry, we still have to work 10 times harder to get our voices out there.
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Voices
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It's really crazy looking back on my bullies or whoever was trying to torment me or tease me, because karma is just, like, crazy.
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Looking Back
Tease
Torment
Bullies
Whoever
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To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.
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Creating
Dear
Inspire
Near
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I like to dress the way I like to dress. I kind of like rebelling against the social norms... I feel uncomfortable wearing just, like, regular stuff.
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Uncomfortable
Norms
Rebelling
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I wanna be Mahershala Ali in my next life. He's the man. He's a really genuine guy. He's a really great guy, one of my favorite people on this planet.
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Genuine
Great Guy
Next Life
Life Great Man
Ali
Wanna
Favorite People
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For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.
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Context
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It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change their perspectives on how things are in whatever way I can.
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Change Grow People
Perspectives
Platform
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I would just encourage my younger self to not care about people's perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing and striving for what you are going to become.
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Striving
Perceptions
Progressing
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If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.
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Beach
Beach Boys
Dope
Hendrix
Pants
Time Dress Me
Noticed
Socks
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Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I was artistic, so that was looked down upon by people in my church, and I was teased for that growing up in school, so it goes both ways.
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Sports Me People
Both Ways
Standard
Teased
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My whole life has changed so much, and it's still constantly changing, but 'Moonlight' brought about a bunch of opportunities that were really surreal, from the Oscars and Golden Globes to the notoriety that it brought, to even doing things like working with Calvin Klein.
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Golden
Moonlight
Notoriety
Oscars
Surreal
Calvin Klein
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I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the room, and I didn't know the lines as well as I should have. I didn't know a thing about the script. I wasn't told anything. I heard it was a low-budget film, and my agent told me to do it. I was super-ignorant to it.
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Moonlight
Me Anything Know
Agent
Low-Budget
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I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.
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Masculinity
Peers
Stereotype
Chase
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I think that's the most important part of doing this job, is learning different personality types. I mean, it's kind of like sociology or psychology in a sense. With that, and with every project I do, I think I'm able to pull something away that further makes me understand humanity in a way I didn't before.
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Psychology
Sociology
Important Part
Types
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