Colman Domingo Almost Left Acting After Losing ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Role – The Hollywood Reporter

Colman Domingo is opening up concerning an experience that almost led him to leave acting permanently.

In a current meeting with The New York City Times, the Ecstasy star stated throughout the very early days of his occupation, he had a great deal of hope following his tryout for HBO’s Boardwalk Realm. Domingo desired the role of a maître d’ at a Black-owned club.

“This is the one that’s going to change it up for me,” Domingo idea. “This is the one that’s going to finally be my big break.”

The Emmy-winning star also went for it for the tryout, putting on a coat and displaying his vocal singing and tap-dancing capabilities for manufacturers. After, his representative called him and stated every person at Boardwalk Realm liked his tryout, yet it’s what he stated his representative stated next that really did not rest ideal with him.

Complying with a callback, the star remembered his representative informing him that the program’s historic scientist advised manufacturers that the maître d’s in those clubs were normally light-skinned, and Domingo was not, so Boardwalk Realm handed down him for the role.

“That’s when I lost my mind,” Domingo remembered sensation.“I can’t take it anymore, I think this is going to kill me.”

Yet, greater than a years later on, Domingo has actually found out a great deal and altered exactly how he sets about auditioning, which aided him land lead functions in movies such as Rustin and The Shade Purple.

“I became an actor that was ‘offer-only’ probably sooner than the industry thought I should have,” he confessed. “But I decided I have a body of work. You can go and look at it, you can ask other directors about me, and you can make me the offer or not.”

Domingo is currently relishing his current success and does not wish to “miss this moment,” including, “All the films, all the lights, all the accolades, all the beautiful critical responses — I want to bathe in all of that right now.”