The optic nerve is the pathway that relays all visual information from the retina to your brain, including brightness, color and contrast so that we can make sense of our world visually. “And she clutches her heart and says, ‘Oh, Colman.’ And then we started hiking again.Brain Awareness Week is March 12-18, 2018, a time when the National Eye Institute focuses on brain neuropathy and how it impacts vision-because without the complex function of our brains working in conjunction with our eyes, we couldn’t see. “I said, ‘I think I just realized that you answered her letters,’” Domingo says. During a hike for Ava DuVernay’s birthday in Hawaii (DuVernay cast Domingo in “Selma”), he told Winfrey about the letters his mother wrote her. Winfrey is a producer on “The Color Purple” and the two have become friendly. Now, Domingo finds himself collaborating with some of the Hollywood legends his mother envisioned him with. I think all good smart decisions, there’s a sense of inevitability.” “It was an organic conversation that had a degree of inevitability but I didn’t realize it at the time. “I would be talking with Mark Rickler the production designer, ‘Oh, Colman could do that.’ Part of my brain would go, ‘Oh, Colman could do that,’' recalls Wolfe. Gradually, he came to see Domingo as Bayard Rustin. Wolfe, the esteemed theater director, first cast Domingo in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” alongside Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, as the trombone-player Cutler. “And Janicza Bravo said, ‘I see that the possibilities of the way you think are endless.’ “When I was cast in ‘Zola,’ I thought, ‘Me, playing a pimp? What? In this dark comedy? What do you see in me?’” says Domingo. Directors like Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) and Bravo (“Zola”) came calling. “Fear the Walking Dead,” in which he played Victor Strand over eight years, brought him to his widest audience yet. He did comedy on the series “The Big Gay Sketch Show.” He was Tony-nominated for “The Scottsboro Boys” on Broadway. In the years that followed, Domingo’s range only extended. “The prayers and wishes people have for you are sometimes more profound than what you imagine, yourself,” says Domingo. I want you to know her.’ I was like, ‘Mom, Oprah doesn’t care about me.’” When her son was struggling to catch a break, she wrote at least six letters to Oprah Winfrey, Domingo says. “I was writing so I could be with my family 90 minutes a day.”ĭomingo’s production company, Edith, is named after his mother. “I started writing my solo show in the last year of my mother’s life and I didn’t know that that writing was going to save my life,” Domingo says. In it, he recalls his mother telling him: “Keep a song in your heart, and you will always find your way.” She and Domingo’s stepfather died in 2016. Resolving to make his own opportunity, Domingo wrote and staged the autobiographical “A Boy and His Soul,” a dexterous one-man play that used the soul music of his youth (Earth Wind & Fire, Donna Summer) to evoke his life story and the inspirational figure of his mother, his greatest champion. “Basically, I was shot out of a cannon,” he says, smiling.ĭomingo, sincere and amiable in conversation, had the appearance of someone eminently aware that a hard-earned moment had finally arrived. Domingo threw a bunch of cold-weather clothes together and jumped on a plane from Los Angeles. After months of being unable to promote that part of his life, he had been thrown straight into late-night appearances, interviews and a “Rustin” screening in Washington, with Barack and Michelle Obama, whose Higher Ground Productions produced the film. On the heels of the actors strike ending, Domingo met recently at a Manhattan hotel overlooking Central Park. I’ve assisted many people getting a lot of shine and love.” “You know, I’ve assisted many people getting Oscars. “I started to feel like: Well, what happened, God? What is my journey? At some point, my journey felt like Bayard’s journey, which is maybe why I feel we’re so close,” Domingo says. Years of struggle as a supporting player in service of others have finally led to his turn in the spotlight.
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