“You want to go beyond just giving your average. Give it a bit more effort, time, attention, intention.” An interview with the Oscar-nominated actor Angela Bassett.
for me.” And the audience just stood up and clapped, and my knees got very weak. It was just the first recognition for me, at fifteen, that drama, that theatre, that words, thatfrom one human being could move another, and maybe I had a gift for it. It was a big audience of hundreds of people, and it was just a thunderous ovation. It almost scared me.
I didn’t quite know what my major was when I got there. My aunt told me, “Angela, please, don’t waste a Yale education on theatre.” That wasn’t practical for the generation before us, wanting to be an actor. “No one down the street does this. We’ve never seen this. It’s some land far, far away!” I didn’t take that as an affront. Then I attempted to major in business, until I was not doing well in statistics. I tried to do business, theatre,African American studies.
When you were there, you founded an affinity group called Folks, for the Black students in the drama school. Was there a kind of support that you felt was missing there that you wanted to create through that group? When I continued on [to drama school] at Yale, it was going through this transition period from Robert Brustein to Lloyd Richards as the head of the theatre school. It was a big transition, with those who are pro the new guy, pro the old guy. You know, they’re pushing the old guy out. HeDon’t cry for him, Argentina. And the new dean is this Black man, and I was just happy to see this man who looked like myself. I could walk by his plate-glass window and see him at his desk.
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