Conflatg ‘Gay’ and ‘the DL’: Omari Hardwick on Playg Carl ‘For Colored Girls’ - tlewisisdope

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• CONFLATG ‘GAY’ AND ‘THE DL’: OMARI HARDWICK ON PLAYG CARL ‘FOR COLORED GIRLS’
• OMARI HARDWICK OF STARZ'S 'POWER' - PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER AND BLACK ROL HOLLYWOOD
• OMARI HARDWICK GAY

CONFLATG ‘GAY’ AND ‘THE DL’: OMARI HARDWICK ON PLAYG CARL ‘FOR COLORED GIRLS’

I’m not entirely sure why folks are so upset at Omari Hardwick’s ments about how he played the role of a nfed gay man For Colored Girls:. OH: Well, I n’t relate to beg gay.

Some of the greatt actors have played gay men.

OMARI HARDWICK OF STARZ'S 'POWER' - PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER AND BLACK ROL HOLLYWOOD

Anthony has played a gay man. Jefey has played gay.

When ’s all said and done, I am secure enough wh my manhood to say to the world, “I am a male actor, and s okay for me to play a gay man. ” It isn’t jt that the black muny might rpond more negatively to a black man playg gay than the whe muny do to a whe man playg gay.

Carl is a reviled character bee he’s “DL” not bee he’s “gay.

OMARI HARDWICK GAY

I thk we do want actors to put the bt work they n and try to fe even the flattt and most ridiculo characters wh dimensn, but I don’t even know what playg Carl more “gay” would have looked like – or what that even means.