The revered character actor, who was found dead on Monday at the age of 54, reflected on his life and career with Scott Feinberg in 2011.
First of all, I have to tell you that a lot of your work is very fresh in my mind — I only recently watchedwhen it first aired — and I think you are the coolest.
I don’t want to belabor the point about the second of those two things, but I did want to ask you about that.
You know, if there was ever a “Brooklyn state of mind,” and if I possessed it, that’s when it kicked in, you know? I was determined not to traumatize myself with the situation, and something just said, “Treat it like a pimple. So what?” You know? I put a baseball cap on my face, and I walked around, and I told people who didn’t know me, “Oh, I found out that, you know, my tribe from Africa’s the same as Seal’s, so these are my tribal marks. Yeah, I did this. Keep it moving.
You were very successful doing the dancing, doing dozens of music videos, but was there an event — some sort of turning point — that made you say, “I’m not only a dancer, I can be an actor, too”?
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