Colman Domingo said the film Michael grossed over $1 billion and is the highest-grossing biopic ever made.
“Huge, we made over $1 billion. Yeah, it's the It's way. it's the highest grossing it's the highest grossing biopic ever made”
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Colman Domingo said that in an interview Joe Jackson responded to Michael Jackson's abuse allegations by saying he beat him 'all the way to the bank'.
“Well, I beat him, but I beat him all the way to the bank. And I was like”
Colman Domingo said Jafar Jackson, the son of Jermaine Jackson, played Michael Jackson in the film Michael.
“the beautiful thing is Jafar Jackson, who's Jermaine Jackson's son, played Michael. He's incredible”
Colman Domingo said the Jackson family were Jehovah's Witnesses, so they skipped birthdays and instead celebrated a 'Joe Jackson Day'.
“I saw a video of Joe Jackson Day because they were Jehovah Witnesses, so they didn't have, you know, birthdays or anything, but they had Joe Jackson Day.”
Colman Domingo said he was one of four children and was about 12 before his younger brother was born.
“I was the youngest for a long time, so they call it the knee baby. So I was, like, 12 years old before my younger brother was born”
Colman Domingo said he first took an acting class at Temple University while studying journalism.
“it was just acting 101 at Temple University, uh, when I was, um, studying journalism”
Colman Domingo said he bartended at the 55 Bar in New York's West Village within minutes of finishing off-Broadway performances.
“call a cab, get over to the 55 bar in the West Village, and suddenly, within 15 minutes”
Colman Domingo said he was paid about $350 a week performing off-Broadway.
“I was getting paid, like, $350 bucks a week.”
Colman Domingo said he appeared in The Scottsboro Boys at the Vineyard Theater with director Susan Stroman, the final collaboration between Kander and Ebb.
“I did a show called, um, Scapin' Boys at the Vineyard Theater with, uh, Susan Stroman, the the final collaboration between Kander and Ebb.”
Colman Domingo said that at about age 44 he performed on London's West End and then returned to auditions that were going nowhere.
“I was about 44 years old, and I went to London on the West End and did Scopspro Boys, came back”
Colman Domingo said he ran a headshot-photography side business in New York and was ready to leave acting for it.
“I would do headshots, like, and, like, I would make like $300 here, $300 here. I was doing everybody's headshots in New York.”
Colman Domingo said that within a month of changing agents he was offered two series leads, Fear the Walking Dead and The Get Down, and he chose Fear the Walking Dead.
“So, literally, within a month, I booked Fear the Walking Dead and, uh, Boseman's The Get Down, uh, so 2 series leads.”
Colman Domingo said he stayed on Fear the Walking Dead for eight seasons and was its longest-running character.
“And then I went on to the do that show for 8 seasons, and I was the longest running character on there.”
Colman Domingo said he directed Robert O'Hara's play Barbecue at the Geffen Playhouse, and executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, who attended, then suggested he direct television.
“I was directing a production of Robert O'Harris Barbecue at the Geffen Playhouse, and I invited, uh, my executive producer, Gail Ann Heard to come and see it”
Colman Domingo said he is developing a Netflix show called Headliners House.
“we're developing something now, uh, for Netflix, uh, a show called, Um, Headliners House”
Colman Domingo credited Euphoria creator Sam Levinson with writing a demanding role that played to his strengths.
“it took people like Sam Levinson, and I I wonder if you guys agree here. It took someone who wrote he wrote the triple Axel for me.”
Colman Domingo said he now lives in a gated community in Malibu after earlier living in Downey, California.
“One was even when where I live now, I live in this gated community in Malibu, and I didn't know I needed it.”
Colman Domingo said Denzel Washington advised him to move for more privacy after his Rustin nomination, warning that his life would change.
“You'll notice that things change, and you'll need you'll need a little less access”
Colman Domingo recounted an older woman telling him that from the mid-50s to early 60s people enter a 'truth-telling season', after a 'storytelling season' earlier in life.
“When you hit your m mid-50s to early 60s, you move into your truth-telling season. I was like, What's that?”
Colman Domingo said he went up on his lines twice in a solo show about his family, on the anniversary of his parents' deaths.
“I realized it was the anniversary of my parents' passing, and it this show that I was doing was all about my family”