Colman Domingo at the 2023 Emmys: "I'm Having a Good Time" | THR Video - video Dailymotion

Emmy winner Colman Domingo talks award season, 'Rustin' and being part of THR's Actor Roundtable at the 2023 Emmy Awards.

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00:00It's been a whirlwind past couple weekends for you. The Golden Globes, you

00:03here at the Emmys. How are you feeling right now amid this award season

00:06craziness? Wildly enough, I'm feeling energetic. I don't know if I got a second

00:10wind or not, but I'm having a good time. I'm seeing all of my colleagues. I'm

00:14celebrating the thing that we love, which is television and film. Here at the

00:17Emmys where, what, a couple years ago I won my first Emmy, which was great. So I

00:21feel like it's a great homecoming, you know? It's great. You were recently on our

00:25Actors Roundtable. What was that experience like for you, connecting with

00:28those other actors? I've been actually making friends with all of them, which

00:32has been great. Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo, Jeffrey Wright. We're colleagues

00:36who've admired each other. Many of us hadn't worked with each other, or maybe

00:39worked with each other many years ago in smaller films. But now we get to really

00:43take a deep dive with each other and talk about what's important to us, not

00:46only as actors, but as human beings. What we hope for the future of film and

00:51television. And so it's really nice to connect with your colleagues, especially

00:54at this time. Rustin is such a powerful film. How does it feel to

00:58celebrate this film today on Martin Luther King Day? It feels even more

01:02important knowing that 60 years ago, I mean, that it was the March on

01:06Washington. And it was organized by this incredible organizer by Rustin, who I've

01:11had the blessing, the unique blessing of portraying. I love the idea that I think

01:15Rustin is on everyone's lips right now. And it's finally time that an unsung hero

01:19like him has his rightful place center stage and the right and fight for human

01:25rights and civil rights. I'm overjoyed in every single way. I love it today that it

01:31feels like, I know it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but it feels like Bayard Rustin

01:35Day today. Is there a Bayard Rustin quote that has stuck with you since filming the movie?

01:40Yes, there's one where he says something, and I don't want to misquote it, but he said,

01:44in every society, you need a band of angelic troublemakers. That means people who are willing to do the good

01:51work. And they have good hearts and spirited, but they're willing to get into good trouble for it.

01:55The March on Washington scene is so powerful in the film. Is that actual footage cut between the

02:03shots? What do you think went into the choice to do that? And how do you think it adds to the

02:07emotion of that moment? I think artistically, that's where George wanted to make sure he melded

02:11in the narrative of it with the documentary, to know that it was a real thing that happened.

02:15So I think that it's kind of beautiful that he does that, that he blends it. So I think we get a

02:19sense of like, yes, it is history, but we're also recreating it, and we're also reexamining it.

02:25And as we're approaching the Oscar nomination announcement, how are you feeling right now?

02:30I feel like my shoulders are dropped. I feel liberated. I feel like what is mine is mine. If

02:37it comes my way, wonderful, because I think amplifying my work amplifies Bayard Rustin's work,

02:42which is awesome. So I feel like it's like, it's both of us, you know? So I love that I've been in the

02:47conversations. And I feel so blessed. And I'm very proud of the work that I've done. And this is

02:52just a wonderful time. And I feel like just being invited to these spaces, that's the win. If there's

02:57more that comes, I appreciate all of it.