In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Character is what a man is in the dark.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.
I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have been influenced by the political climate back then.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.
I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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