Jesse williams

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your...

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I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

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I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

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We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a...

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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the...

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Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

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Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

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