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I was really impressed with and excited about being immersed in this world and this time period with 'Fences,' being able to walk the neighborhood, and it looks exactly like the 1950s.

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I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.

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When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

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You may not understand your parents' interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust it.

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All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.

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Denzel had made it apparent that he wanted me to bring my own interpretation of 'Cory'. I was definitely aware of Courtney B. Vance's performance in the original production, as well as that of Chris Chalk, who performed the role onstage with my cast back in 2010.

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I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

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I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could do commercials and actually make a little money.

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I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in England. According to her, he never had the courage to actually pursue it full-time. I think that my grandfather's parents thought that it wasn't a formidable job to have.

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