Colman Domingo gets a long deserved breakthrough in Rustin. He’s outstanding as the gay civil rights activist and Million Man March organizer Bayard Rustin, who was messy, but brilliant; instrumental yet doubly oppressed and misunderstood.
At a promo event at the Roxy Hotel in NYC, I got to talk to the gay star about this important assignment.Hello, Colman.
Is this the role of a lifetime?Absolutely. To play one of your heroes, one I discovered when I was in college and couldn’t shake it…You never think you’ll play your heroes.
But people kept telling me for years, “You’ve got to play Rustin”.Did you study the clipped way he spoke?Yes.