“Me saying I don’t like to call myself a Black actor is my prerogative.”
He received a lot of brickbats for that statement as people saw him as denouncing his identity as a black person. He told thenewspaper, “I feel as I get older – I’m 50 now – we all have fears of saying too much, oversharing and whatnot.
“Me saying I don’t like to call myself a Black actor is my prerogative. That’s me, not you. So for you to turn around and say to me, I’m denying my Blackness,’ On what grounds? Did you hear that? Where am I denying it? And what for? It’s just stupid. Whatever.”- Advertisement -
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