Colman Domingo chats with The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet of the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival. He talks about how 'Sing Sing' has the power for real change and teaming up with Steven Spielberg again on a new film.
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00:00Happy New Year my friend. New Year to you. Good to see you. We're doing this all over again
00:04It's all over again, and you're gonna go get an award tonight. I know isn't it nice
00:07It's so beautiful to come back here again. I guess every time I come here. I'm gonna pick up an award
00:11Maybe that's it. I can't just come and just stay for the summer. I have to come only at this time
00:15It's a good reason to come to get an award, especially when you know, you're gonna win
00:20It actually that's actually like the most relaxing thing because you're just here your colleagues
00:25It's the first I feel like you're just shot out of the cannon
00:27I was just in Punta Mita for like a week and I suddenly I'm back into all this
00:31But I feel great because I'm here with sing sing and my colleagues. It's beautiful
00:37Relations on this ride with this film. I feel like this has been such a special journey
00:40You know, they're all special but this one in particular for you. This does feel different
00:44It feels like because I really do feel like there's a power in our film
00:49They can really promote some real change not only change like in the in the way people treat
00:53Inmates and what's what access they have to arts and things to do some real rehabilitation
00:59But it has changed the heart and minds of people
01:02Examining inmates because usually we've seen like a few prison dramas and we think that that's all there is
01:07Instead of also some people in these places that are really doing their damnness to do work
01:12That does some real soul work and some transformative work so much so that there's a less than 3% recidivism rate
01:19among men who go through this program
01:21Rehabilitation of the arts compared to 60% nationwide. So for me we look at that margin you're like this is a film that can promote
01:27some real change
01:29That was really beautiful
01:31Also, beautiful these gloves those are a thing aren't they think they're a thing and you know
01:35And I was also just reading your cover story in Palm Springs life or Palm Springs magazine where you said your New Year's Resolutions
01:41Be maximalist, which I think this qualifies. Listen, Alessandro
01:46Who Ellison Michelle who's that Valentino will let you know these very maximalistic basically, it's phenomenal. Look at this
01:53I mean this this why we chose this and this is custom was because it feels like Palm Springs in the 1960s
01:59But also has a little bit of Victorian England. I love the fact that it feels timeless
02:03I thought and I feel like I'm a man of the world and I want to express myself in that way
02:07It's feel North African and and I don't I think I have a lot going on in all the right ways
02:13I took the words right out of my mouth, by the way looking ahead to 2025
02:18You have a lot of exciting things coming you're reteaming with your Lincoln director Steven Spielberg, which I saw
02:22I know you probably can't say much about it
02:25But just tell me what just what it feels like to reunite with someone like him
02:28well, I
02:30first worked with Steven Spielberg in the very beginning of my film career with a little film called Lincoln and I just had the
02:36opening scene and I was the opening voice and
02:39Now for that journey to had been lasting and every time I would see Steven throughout the years
02:45We didn't know we wanted to work together again
02:47And so when this project came up, he said I was one of the first that he thought about and so it's um
02:52I'm myself with some people
02:54I really love and admire like Emily Blunt and Colin Firth and Joshua Conner and Eve Hewson
02:59I think we want to make something special something very special that is
03:03written
03:05Indirected by Steven, which is beautiful
03:09You