Career Choices:
Colman Domingo: What do I want and what’s available? I always think it’s a little bit of the same thing. I can never point to exactly what I want because I feel like maybe someone’s writing it and creating the thing that’s new and interesting, and they can help me pour a lot of things that I’m aligned with, or trying to discover about myself and my place in the world. I’m just always open to see what is coming my way. I’m also navigating the things that I build as a writer, director, or actor. The Madness is very much aligned with a lot of the work that I care about right now.
The fact that, in succession, I’ve done The Color Purple, Rustin, Sing Sing, and The Madness, I feel like they also live in the same space, in some way, shape or form. It’s really thinking about our culture, about society, about Black men and how they’re perceived in the world, and the journey of that. That’s something I’m very deeply interested in right now. The fact that it’s taking on different shapes and periods and forms, whether it’s the prison industrial complex, rural Georgia, or organizing the March on Washington.
Muncie Daniels falls in line with all of these men in a complicated way, for us to really re-examine who we are in the world and what we’re gonna be, and then how society views us.
The Madness is available to stream on Netflix. Check out the trailer:
