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My agents love pranking me.
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Agents
Love Me
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I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.
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Animation
Cartoon
Comic
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Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.
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Single Mother
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My favorite play that I did was at Yale. It's called 'The Island.'
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Island
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I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.
Winston Duke /
Following
My Truth
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It's only until we confront the darkness of our past that we can responsibly move forward.
Winston Duke /
Confront
Forward
Move Forward
Responsibly
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I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.
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Power People Media
Positions
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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
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Bold
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A tall, broad-shouldered man with dark skin and a gap tooth - I wasn't the image of 'old Hollywood beauty.'
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Tall
Gap
Tooth
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I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
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Charismatic
Dumb
Intelligent
Witty
Bold
Typecast
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Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
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Stronger
Valid
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There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.
Winston Duke /
Gang
Scripts
Stereotypes
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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
Winston Duke /
Color
Hollywood
Mold
In The Past
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I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.
Winston Duke /
American Culture
Caribbean
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We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to high school in Rochester in New York.
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Brooklyn
Rochester
New School High School
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I've always had this dream that if people could pay me to watch and review old episodes of 'The Golden Girls,' that would be something really special.
Winston Duke /
Episodes
Golden
Always Me People
Me People Always
Review
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I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.
Winston Duke /
Footprint
Perception
Social Justice
All People
Work Justice People
Attached
Needle
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Even being part of a world like 'Black Panther,' that is gonna be something that's deeply commercial, it still is about a narrative of people who are unseen, unheard, and unrepresented, you know?
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Narrative
Unheard
World Black People
Panther
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I am from Trinidad and Tobago, so I actually grew up in Tobago on the beach, just running around, playing, watching really creative people, and being exposed to really deep, rich stories from a young age.
Winston Duke /
Beach
Creative People
Exposed
Young Age
Age I Am People
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What is your duty to a country? Do you follow it blindly? Or do you challenge your country to be better and stand up to the ideals that all men are created equal and everyone deserves equity, not just equality?
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Equality
Duty
Equal
Ideals
Blindly
Challenge
Created
Deserves
Follow
Stand Up
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The panther is sleek. The panther is sneaky. The panther is covert. Meanwhile, the gorilla will show up and bang on his chest and make noises to warn you about what is about to happen if you continue to cross the line.
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Covert
Sneaky
Bang
Show
Chest
Continue
Cross
Gorilla
Happen
His
Line
Meanwhile
Noises
Panther
Warn
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I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.
Winston Duke /
Agency
Politics Myself Always
Images
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All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new language, a new world for the MCU to play in, and that construction is then rocked to its core when Thanos enters in 'Infinity War' - get ready.
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Construction
Core
Infinity
New World
Ready
Wonderful
War World Black
Direction
New Direction
Panther
Sets
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I let my people know that I'd love to work with Ryan Coogler one day because I thought he's just one of those truly auteur directors of our time. And I was just like, 'I want to work with a guy like that.' I think he has such a great understanding and distinct voice of his own.
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Just One
Our Time
Love Time Work
Distinct
Love Work Time
Ryan
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People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong.
Winston Duke /
Beauty
Norm
Rewriting
Sexy
Strong
Vulnerable
Established
Be Strong
Show
Interested
Deeply
Definition
Different People
Narratives
Redefine
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As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor that was a terrible Hamlet. And he reenacted the performance, and for days I went on. I'd perform and do that, and I knew I wanted to do something kind of like that as a kid for awhile.
Winston Duke /
Terrible
Awhile
Perform
Watch
Episode
Hamlet
Performance
Shakespearean
Something Kind
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