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00:00What do you know about a zip zap zap?
00:02Oh, I know that.
00:03Zip zap zap!
00:04Oh my god!
00:14Welcome to Royal Court, the show where pop culture royalty compete for a spot on my trusted council.
00:19I am your host and queen, Lady Brittany of House Broski.
00:22And today, I'm joined by a playwright, director, and two-time Oscar nominee, Coleman Domingo.
00:29Please welcome, affectionately known as the Joan Rivers of the Realm, Lord Coleman.
00:36Oh my lord, fabulous!
00:39Hello darling, how are you?
00:40Doing quite well.
00:41I'm quite well as well.
00:42Oh, you look fabulous.
00:43You look fetching.
00:45Can I just say the cape is eerily just, it works.
00:47It does?
00:48Yeah, it feels natural on you.
00:49It feels like, wait, why is my...
00:51Oh, your breast!
00:53Except I have one big breast.
00:55Okay, no, what's happening here?
00:58This is, it feels like it's a natural thing that I should wear a cape.
01:02I agree.
01:03If you need it for a loan out for the Met Gala, you just let me know.
01:06Okay, perfect.
01:07I like your cape.
01:08Thank you so much.
01:09Are you ready for the trial set before you today?
01:12I think I am.
01:14Without further ado, let the trials begin.
01:18Hello.
01:20How's that light for you?
01:21It's good.
01:22It's an interrogation.
01:24It is?
01:25Coleman, you met your gorgeous husband on a Craigslist ad.
01:29I sure did.
01:30What does it feel like to be God's favorite?
01:33Just let me know.
01:34You know, it feels, you know...
01:38Wow, God's favorite, am I?
01:41You know, it feels like maybe one of his, one of the favorites.
01:44You know, there's a lot of us, it seems, right?
01:46It's true.
01:47You are, we all are, apparently, you know?
01:49Can I get an amen?
01:50Amen, hallelujahs.
01:51Hallelujahs.
01:52Something we say here in the realm is,
01:54heavy is the head that is number one on the call sheet.
01:57Yes.
01:58How is your head, Coleman?
01:59My head is, it's quite...
02:03My head is quite...
02:04My brain just went to three different places.
02:06How is my head? I'm like...
02:08How is your head?
02:11Depends.
02:12Depends on the day, the moment.
02:15Exactly.
02:16You know, head game is strong.
02:19No complaints yet.
02:20No complaints yet, exactly.
02:21No complaints yet, exactly, yes.
02:22You've been a college professor.
02:24Yes.
02:25Were you the cool sort of teacher that sat backwards on the chair?
02:28Like, what was your vibe as a professor?
02:30I used to think maybe I'm the worst teacher.
02:33I would walk into an acting class and say,
02:35hey, my job is not to teach you about acting at all.
02:37Okay.
02:38Because I really think I just want to teach you, like,
02:39how to have a voice.
02:40Right.
02:41And you know, how to be like, you know,
02:42tell your story in some way, shape, or form.
02:43So, I'm like, if you have a career with this, wonderful.
02:46If not, cool, at least you know how to, like, you know,
02:48stand up for your order at Starbucks.
02:51I ordered pickles on my burger.
02:52Yeah, yeah.
02:53I mean, pickles on that burger.
02:54Full-throated voice, exactly.
02:56You know?
02:57Say it to the balcony.
02:58Yes, yes, yes.
02:59Exactly.
03:00You've described yourself to Vanity Fair as old as fuck.
03:02Wow.
03:04Wow, that kind of hurt.
03:07Old as fuck.
03:08Yes, I'm old as fuck.
03:09Have you told that to your young and handsome face, though?
03:12She doesn't know.
03:13You know what?
03:14No, she doesn't know.
03:15She stays pretty tight and high.
03:16No, I always say I'm old as fuck, especially when I'm like,
03:20I'm 55, and nobody ever believes I'm 55.
03:22But I think, I'm like, yeah, this is 55 when you, like,
03:25maintain, you take care of yourself, and you have a good time,
03:28and you moisturize, and you hydrate, and all that good stuff.
03:3055 can look like this.
03:32So, I like to say I'm old as fuck so people can embrace it
03:34and be like, oh, shit, I want to become old as fuck.
03:37I'm going to look kind of like Paula Deen, I think.
03:40Is that your history?
03:41Is that where you're going, Paula Deen?
03:42That's where I'm going.
03:43I tried the sunscreen, but look, it was like milk.
03:46It's whatever.
03:47Would you rather play?
03:48Would you rather play James Bond, a James Bond villain,
03:51or, third option, James Bond girl?
03:53Ooh, that's good.
03:54That's a nice alt.
03:56I think I would really, I don't know why I'm drawn to the villains.
03:59I think villains, you have so much more fun.
04:01The thing about a good villain, if the audience is rooting for you,
04:04either there's something wrong with them,
04:06it makes them question themselves,
04:08but you've got to put a little empathy in there,
04:10so you're like, oh, they're just a broken human being
04:12who's doing really horrible shit.
04:14I see myself in them.
04:15Exactly, I see myself.
04:16As a villain, what kind of little pet do you have?
04:18You know, listen, a cat is overdone.
04:20It's interesting to have a big animal, like a buffalo.
04:25Yeah.
04:26Like something weird.
04:27Stands ominously behind you.
04:28Just following me.
04:29Glaring.
04:30And you're all...
04:33There's something really cunty about a skunk, I think, as well.
04:35Skunk?
04:36Yeah.
04:37Skunk is quite cunty.
04:38Right?
04:39Exactly, but a skunk is also just going to fuck you up.
04:41Well, yeah.
04:42That's sort of the aura of, like, I smell so fucking bad.
04:46Right, right.
04:47In Sing Sing, we see characters do a lot of different acting warm-ups.
04:52What do you know about a zip, zap, zop?
04:54Oh, I know that.
04:55Zip, zap, zop.
04:57Oh, my God.
04:58That's like the...
04:59You know, and you still wonder, like, well, why are those games...
05:01Why do they exist?
05:02Therefore, I should make sure that you're passing energy to someone else.
05:06Lock in.
05:07And they're listening, and they're listening to you.
05:08You can go zip, zap, zop all across the room.
05:10Okay, I'm glad.
05:11I knew you'd know.
05:12You knew I knew that shit.
05:13Come to play today.
05:14Exactly.
05:15You're a brunch fan.
05:16I am.
05:17Do you prefer your brunch bottomless, or is it okay if there's some bottoms there?
05:21Both.
05:23Depends on the mood.
05:24It depends on the mood, but I think you should have options.
05:26You should have all things there.
05:27Yeah.
05:28Well, it's always a buffet, so it should be a buffet in every single way.
05:32Right?
05:34There's always options.
05:35There should be a versatile amount of options laid out on display.
05:40Yeah, you know, and there's a top shelf and a bottom shelf.
05:42Exactly.
05:43You want selection, and you want to be at brunch for hours, too.
05:45Exactly.
05:47Everybody eats.
05:48Everybody eats.
05:49Enjoy yourself.
05:52That was a good pick-off.
05:53You don't leave until you're pulled.
05:54Until you're full.
05:55Exactly.
05:56Until you're pulled.
05:57Pulled?
05:58Until you're pulled.
05:59Sure.
06:00I don't know.
06:01Listen, that was a 40-inch lip.
06:02Damn.
06:03I'm the medic on standby.
06:04You wake up at 5?
06:05Yeah, sometimes 4.30.
06:06When is your bedtime?
06:07Do we need to get you out of here, correct?
06:08No.
06:10I go to bed, but listen, most of the time I'll go to bed at like a good 9.30.
06:14Okay.
06:15Yeah, I told you, I'm old as fuck.
06:16Listen, when you're in your 50s, you're like, the best thing is to turn this all down at 9.30,
06:21wake up early before the sun, get your whole life before anyone is coming at you.
06:26Yes.
06:27So really, I'm out really just looking at the sunrise and having coffee.
06:31I know about the Christian Dior robe.
06:32Yeah, you like that?
06:33I'm so good at it.
06:34It's good, right?
06:35It matches the bathroom tub.
06:36It sure does.
06:37Exactly.
06:38Everything, you've got to have a little style.
06:39Agreed.
06:40And I feel like you wake up in the morning, I want everything that I look at and touch
06:44to feel good, make you feel good.
06:45Yeah.
06:46That's how I start my day.
06:47Do you ever take a day off, fashion-wise?
06:49No, you've got to keep that foot pressed on necks at all times.
06:53I agree.
06:54What does loungewear look like for you?
06:55Loungewear?
06:56You know, honestly, when I'm at home, I look a little bit more haggard and laid back.
06:59I throw on some jeans, I throw on my, you know, my glosses and stuff like that and go out.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Yeah, really.
07:06I chill.
07:07And when you go out, you want to make it an event.
07:09Of course.
07:10And I feel like I love playing with clothes and style and textures and design and stuff,
07:15so I have a good time.
07:16I love to watch you play with it.
07:18Thank you, thank you.
07:19You are welcome.
07:20You were, at one point, a hype-up dancer at bar slash bat mitzvahs.
07:25Was there one particular song that just got the tweens jumping?
07:29It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right.
07:31Well, yeah.
07:32You've got to go for the classics.
07:34Is there one thing where you can break it down?
07:35It takes two to make a thing go right.
07:37Yes, exactly.
07:38Listen, I was, wow, yeah, it was the 90s and I was, and this was a gig that I had.
07:45And people knew I can get the party started.
07:47I'll get, like, Ms. Rabinowitz up going.
07:49Jump around.
07:50But they really, really, really, my gig was really going towards, like, someone's bubby
07:56and, like, getting her up to dance.
07:58Right.
07:59Let's get Granny up.
08:00Get Granny up.
08:01Because once I got Granny up, everybody got up.
08:02Love that.
08:03Granny would get a little handsy sometimes.
08:04No.
08:05You know.
08:06Okay, Granny, sit down.
08:07But you know, I let it happen.
08:08You know.
08:09No.
08:10It was a time, you know.
08:11I guess I didn't, you know, she didn't ask for consent, but I was into it.
08:18You have perhaps been a viewer and enjoyer, even, of Real Housewives of Atlanta.
08:23Yeah.
08:24Okay.
08:25It's coming back.
08:26It's coming back.
08:27Yeah, I saw that they were just, showed the promos and looked amazing.
08:28What might be your Real Housewife tagline?
08:33I used to actually do, oh, here's a peach.
08:35I'd actually, I'd actually, because they always say these weird taglines, like, you know,
08:40I'm not running from you.
08:42I just run me, just run me my money.
08:45You know, something like that.
08:47I feel like my tagline would be something like, you know, you know, this life ain't so bad.
08:54But you gotta be a bad bitch on the inside.
08:59I just came up with that.
09:00That was good.
09:01You passed.
09:07Well, Lord Coleman, seeing as you've traveled so far and you did so good in the Royal Interrogation,
09:11I think we've earned a feast.
09:13What do you say?
09:14I'd love a feast.
09:15Squash!
09:20Ooh.
09:21What do you know about a deviled egg with paprika?
09:23I know, listen, I love a deviled egg with paprika.
09:26I think, does it have some dill in it?
09:28Little bit, little bit.
09:29First of all, what I love, because, you know, I judged the color of it.
09:32Yes, let me know.
09:33Because it has mustard in it, which is good.
09:35We got some relish up in here that'd be good, too.
09:36We'll see.
09:37We'll see.
09:38I'm gonna judge it.
09:39I'm gonna look too hard.
09:40Don't look too hard.
09:41Okay, should we do a little?
09:43Who made this?
09:44Well, my crew, of course.
09:46My resident chef, me.
09:50Okay, this is good as shit.
09:51You like it?
09:52It's really good.
09:53I'm so glad.
09:54Ooh, it's good.
09:55Because people can fuck up a deviled egg.
09:57Especially, look.
09:58Apparently I haven't eaten in years.
10:00Look at me.
10:02I'm sorry.
10:03Just coffee and eggs in your stomach right now.
10:05It's crazy.
10:06Exactly.
10:07That car's gonna smell crazy.
10:08It's gonna smell really good around here in a minute.
10:11Okay, Coleman.
10:12Should I keep eating or just like?
10:14You do you.
10:15Okay.
10:16You're my guest.
10:17Okay.
10:18I have a question for you about fragrance.
10:20Okay.
10:21You're a fragrance connoisseur.
10:22Yes.
10:23What are, because you have, how many total?
10:25I would say about 110.
10:27Oh, wow.
10:28That's crazy.
10:29That's a passion.
10:30Well, first of all, I want to know the notes.
10:31Like, what are your sort of favorite notes in a fragrance?
10:33What makes a beautiful fragrance?
10:34I love things that are like fresh and clean.
10:38Have a little oud in it.
10:40I don't like things that are too heavy.
10:41I like bright things that smell like you're in a garden in a way.
10:46Yeah.
10:47I love things that are floral too, like gardenia.
10:49Usually when I combine, I love layering scents as well.
10:52Me too, me too.
10:53Layering is hot.
10:54It's sexy.
10:55I didn't know about layering.
10:56It's in.
10:57It's very in.
10:58It's very in vogue.
10:59But you put some here, and then you put some here,
11:00and it's different scent here,
11:01and people keep catching something different.
11:02Yup, yup, yup.
11:03You always want to put some on the back
11:04so when you walk away, they're like, oh.
11:05And they hug you.
11:06On the fupa.
11:07On the fupa.
11:08On the fupa.
11:09On the fupa.
11:10So just like, and they're all.
11:11Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
11:12Okay.
11:13It's before they go to the.
11:14Exactly.
11:15To the special place.
11:16Downtown, yes.
11:17Before they go downtown, they're like.
11:18Before they visit me.
11:20But I think, that's very kind of you, too.
11:22I appreciate that.
11:23That's very kind.
11:24I do like a cedar sort of mossy base note.
11:27Okay, yeah.
11:28But sometimes that can be really cologne-y,
11:29and I like a sort of androgynous scent.
11:31Mm-hmm.
11:32You like an androgynous scent.
11:33Yes.
11:34Do you know about Maison Louis-Marie?
11:35No, I don't.
11:36I'm going to let you smell something later.
11:37Okay.
11:38You would love.
11:39I think it's.
11:40Are you going to spray it on your fupa?
11:41Mm-hmm.
11:42I'll spray it on your fupa.
11:43I just want to know where I'm going.
11:44Where's my nose headed?
11:48Where's my nose going?
11:49I don't know.
11:50Oh, my God.
11:51That's the second time I've talked about my fupa
11:54this week on this show.
11:55You know what?
11:56Fupa's are underrated.
11:57I agree.
11:58We should embrace them more and talk about them.
12:00Bring them back.
12:01They are back.
12:02They are back.
12:03In a big way.
12:04And living.
12:05After the month of January, they're back.
12:08Okay.
12:09You were a bartender.
12:10Yes.
12:11For 15 years?
12:12Yeah.
12:13What is the worst bullshit drink that people would come up
12:16and order and you'd be like, have to make this again?
12:18Oh, like a Long Island Iced Tea.
12:20Just every.
12:21An Adios motherfucker.
12:22Any Alabama Slam where those kind of bullshit drinks.
12:25Like when I was bartending, it was about that kind of stuff.
12:27Yeah.
12:28Before it became craft cocktails.
12:29It was like, I would just throw shit in and just make it red.
12:32Make it red.
12:33Make it red.
12:34And make it strong.
12:35Get out of my face.
12:36Tip me well.
12:37Yes.
12:38Yeah, exactly.
12:39And have a great night.
12:40Have a great night.
12:41Sometimes I didn't even know what the fuck I was putting in it.
12:42That's so funny.
12:43Mm-hmm.
12:44Yeah.
12:46Enjoy.
12:47Enjoy.
12:48Okay, you love hosting.
12:49Mm-hmm.
12:50What makes a good host and do you do themed parties?
12:53Does that kind of assist?
12:55Themed somewhat.
12:56Okay.
12:57But I think to be a good host, first of all, and I'm very opinionated over this.
13:01Let me know.
13:02You gotta have, it's gotta be a lot of good music, great lighting, great lighting.
13:08Good music.
13:09You gotta have the scent of, if it's not candles when people come in,
13:14it's something baking or something good.
13:16Yeah.
13:17For me, it's a little garlic.
13:18Some people don't like garlic.
13:20Garlic, onion, whatever.
13:21Something sauteed going on.
13:22Right.
13:23Usually before people came, everything's almost done.
13:25Mm-hmm.
13:26Because I want things to be hot and ready.
13:27Mm-hmm.
13:28When I've had dinner parties, I would get really annoyed when, if I spent six hours
13:32making a meal and people would just come in sweats when I come after work.
13:34I'm like, yo, you gotta dress up a little bit.
13:36That's a great point.
13:37Yeah.
13:38You gotta do something.
13:39You gotta make it an event.
13:40Yeah.
13:41Like a pool party.
13:42I would smoke ribs for six hours.
13:46If I'm doing all this work-
13:47You're doing smoked meats for a pool party?
13:49I smoke meats.
13:50Damn, okay.
13:51I smoke meats for it.
13:52Then I want you to just come.
13:53You gotta bring the vibes.
13:54You gotta bring all of it.
13:55You gotta join in.
13:57You gotta swim.
13:58You gotta dance.
13:59You gotta go full out.
14:00Usually when people come to my house, they come at two in the afternoon and leave at
14:03two in the morning.
14:04That's a great house party though.
14:05Yeah.
14:06Because it just keeps riding waves.
14:07Mm-hmm.
14:08People are like, are we going?
14:09No, we're not going.
14:10Let's keep going.
14:11Love that.
14:12Are we back in the pool?
14:13We're back in the pool.
14:14Love.
14:15It was really important to me as I became an adult to be like, I want a house where this
14:17is the crash spot.
14:18Where I have guest rooms and it's comfortable for a guest.
14:21Not just like, yeah, I guess you can sleep on the couch.
14:23I want it to be an event.
14:25It's been the joy of my life to do that.
14:27Isn't it beautiful?
14:28But that's also California living, too.
14:29Don't you think?
14:30It is.
14:31I think it is.
14:32It is.
14:33People entertain more at their homes.
14:34Yes.
14:35You want people over.
14:36I love doing that, too.
14:37So cute.
14:38You are a co-chair of the Met Gala.
14:39Thank you, God.
14:40And I wanted to know what, in your opinion, makes a great Met Gala theme?
14:45First of all, I think this theme is one of the dopest themes.
14:48I think that they've got to get people excited about it.
14:50It's all benefiting the Costume Institute.
14:52So it's really about like, you know they're going to have this great gallery display for
14:55months after.
14:57So for me, it's just like, this one is like, it's called Superfine Tailoring.
15:01You know, honoring the black dandy.
15:03Which is cool.
15:04Looking at men, you know, like how black men have created style.
15:09Forever.
15:10Exactly.
15:11So that got everybody excited.
15:13You know, like black designers will be highlighted.
15:15It's just got to get everyone excited about it.
15:17And I feel like you want to get into the fantasy of it.
15:19My first year going to the Met Gala last year, the thing that I literally told Ms. Anna Wintour
15:25after was, I felt like I was in art.
15:29And I think that's the best part of it.
15:31It makes you feel like every detail, the food, the environment, the lighting, the carpet,
15:36you felt like you were inside a painting.
15:39And I think that's kind of cool.
15:40We need those moments.
15:41I agree.
15:42I mean, look at you.
15:43I think that's why I'm so obsessed with this.
15:44This is what you've just given me.
15:45I'm like, oh, it's not just a come, sit down, chat.
15:48You know, you've given me like, a fantasy.
15:51A fantasy.
15:52We need some more fantasy.
15:53I agree.
15:54I think especially nowadays, it's like that escapism is so important.
15:57To do it to the level that the Met Gala does, it has to be polished.
16:00And when I see somebody looking crazy on that carpet, I say, I'm pissed off.
16:04Exactly.
16:05Is that what you decided to do?
16:06Right.
16:07Like, when guys just wear like, oh, I'm just going to wear like, a tuxedo.
16:09Dude, really?
16:10Maybe with some satin on.
16:11It's the Met Gala.
16:12It's the Met Gala.
16:13Coleman, you've passed.
16:18Well, Lord Coleman.
16:19Yes, darling.
16:20We've reached the part where I need you to make your family crest.
16:25And to do that, I've got these wonderful markers in my dragon head.
16:29And you go ahead and just take those prompts and you draw whatever comes to your little
16:31mind.
16:32And I use my very, very British accent.
16:33Oh, yeah.
16:34You see, from that stage.
16:35Mine is one of those, like, when he speaks like, mm-mm-mm, of course.
16:38Mm-mm-mm.
16:39Mm-mm-mm.
16:40Like, it's obviously something.
16:41You know, of course.
16:42Like, mm-mm-mm.
16:43Ha!
16:44Okay, let's talk Sing Sing.
16:46Watching these men, who society paints as tough and dangerous, watching them be so vulnerable
16:54and together is so uplifting.
16:56And I wanted to know the feeling of watching a project like that come to life.
17:02When you watched it for the first time, what were those emotions?
17:04I've only seen the movie twice.
17:06I saw a rough cut and I saw it once on a plane.
17:10And when I first fully watched it, I got very emotional.
17:13Mm-hmm.
17:14Because I do think it was the first time that I was really just, I was sort of asked to
17:18bring true vulnerability and a lot more of myself to it than I've been allowed to as
17:24an actor.
17:25Usually I'm building a character and it's so outside of me and it's all this other information.
17:29But this one was like, I have to find how Divine G lives in me.
17:33He is admirable about him.
17:36Someone who was actually doing such tremendous work on the inside, always being the law librarian,
17:41advocating for other people and taking care of, I don't know, his soul?
17:46Yeah.
17:47While he was on the inside.
17:48I could very much be wrongly accused of something in the wrong place at the wrong time.
17:53It's just circumstances.
17:54Everyone who's in prison is not someone who's done a heinous crime.
17:58Some people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
18:01And I thought, well, I have to find that part of me.
18:03And I have to find that part that makes it a bit more threadbare and stripped down.
18:08It's heavy.
18:09And it's heavy.
18:10But also I feel like it's, I know the film is so very hopeful because what I wanted for
18:13the film was for it to be tender, to show that men can be vulnerable.
18:19And I think that that's a key to our liberation as men.
18:23It helps us with our families, helps us with our communities, it's all this toxic shit
18:28that we don't need anymore and we've got to do some work and hold each other accountable
18:32to it.
18:33Even the idea that we call each other beloved in the film, I think that's an extraordinary
18:38act.
18:39And that was the gift that was given to me by Clarence, my co-star, who said we don't
18:42call each other, you know, like the N-word in prison, we call each other beloved.
18:47And you know, this strong, butch dude calling another dude beloved, I thought it was radical.
18:54It's endlessly powerful.
18:55Isn't it endlessly powerful?
18:56And I felt like that's, for me, I'm like, well, that's the film I wanted to create.
19:00It feels like it's in service to our humanity in every single way.
19:04So I feel good.
19:05Couldn't agree more.
19:06There were times I was watching it and I was like, you know, those moments of pure joy
19:09and release.
19:10I was like, this feels like watching a bunch of young boys at an after school program.
19:15And it was such a fun, like, when do you ever get to see only men act like that?
19:21It was just, it was so important.
19:23A huge theme that permeates almost every breath of Sing Sing is the idea that being real,
19:29being vulnerable with each other is something that men don't get to do.
19:34Do you have pockets in your life as Coleman that you were able to draw from to bring into
19:40your character of that just raw vulnerability?
19:43The friendships that I have with men, I feel like I don't see them represented on the screen
19:49often.
19:50I think it's because I know that they exist.
19:52And I'm like, well, why don't we see that?
19:53We have these other ideas about who we are and how we tear each other down or not too
19:58strong with each other.
20:00But I have very sensitive relationships with men of all ages, hues, backgrounds, sexuality,
20:06religions, you name it.
20:07Because I think maybe because that's what I offer and that's what I want.
20:10And I want that tenderness in the world.
20:12Shakespeare always talked about the bonds of brotherhood as being one of the strongest
20:16bonds as well as sisterhood.
20:19More than like husband, wife, you know, things like that.
20:21But it's like brotherhood and sisterhood are the strongest things.
20:25And if those things are solid, you can do anything.
20:27Then you can be good for your relationships and all.
20:30That's the thing that I think I know I've experienced even from, I would say from my
20:34father, who used to kiss me and cuddle me and make me feel so special.
20:39So I always had a, I think I was a soft kid growing up, what they called a soft kid.
20:43And I used to be challenged by being a soft kid.
20:46But my parents always supported me being soft.
20:48They said, be kind, be loving, that's okay.
20:52But it takes you a while because, you know, you're a teenager, you don't want to be tough
20:55and hard.
20:56Of course.
20:57But I just like, you know, almost like my own resistance because that's just not, wasn't
21:02my nature.
21:03Radical tenderness.
21:04Radical tenderness.
21:05I like that.
21:06Radical tenderness.
21:07We need more of that.
21:09Out Magazine called you the first black gay movie star.
21:13Ain't that something?
21:15How does this recognition make you feel, especially as someone who had to put in a lot more work
21:20than the average man?
21:21I'll tell you this, titles and things like that are markers always make me like flinch
21:26for a minute because I just think of myself as a person.
21:30And then people like, they put a lot of, you know, markers on you and I realize how great
21:34it is too because, you know, like it's recognizing that there has never been one in this space.
21:41Imagine.
21:42And I realized, I realized that years ago I was, I went in to teach a workshop at University
21:49of Wisconsin and this one kid stood up and he said, hey, Mr. Domingo, can I ask you a
21:53question?
21:54I was like, sure.
21:55He said, do you realize that you're doing something that no one has ever done at the
21:58level that you're doing it?
21:59And I was like, what do you mean?
22:02And he said, you are not being, as a brown man from inner city of Philadelphia and you
22:12exist in all these different spaces in a very, very healthy way, no one is limiting you.
22:20Isn't that fantastic?
22:21And I thought about it and I was like, I didn't realize it because I'm just someone just,
22:24I got my head down, I'm working.
22:26I didn't know that I was the only one doing this.
22:27The ripples you're making in the industry.
22:29Yeah.
22:30Like I know for sure.
22:32Last year for me, I can truly recognize, I'm like, when I'm being recognized for Rustin,
22:36at the same time being recognized for the color purple playing Mr. And I'm like, I don't
22:40know if there has been a man who existed in these spaces who actually has my background,
22:47I think black or white or Asian.
22:50I really thought, well, this is some unique territory and I know that I've been forging
22:54my own path.
22:55I'm a playwright.
22:56I'm a librettist.
22:57I write musicals.
22:58I do television and film and stuff.
23:00I've always constantly just been doing my own thing.
23:03But then at some point you look around and you're like, oh, am I the only one?
23:06I've been the only one existing in these spaces.
23:08I didn't know that.
23:09I outran everybody.
23:10I'm still here.
23:11After 34 years, I'm still running.
23:12Well, that's what it feels like.
23:13It feels like these days feel like I'm a discovery.
23:20And I've been working steadily for over 30 years and just creating in whatever meaningful
23:27way that I could.
23:28Even when work wasn't available, I was still creating.
23:31And I feel like that's where I gained my power in this industry by saying, okay, cool.
23:35If I get that audition or something, that's great.
23:37But it doesn't take away the fact that I have things I'm working on and things I'm building.
23:41I love this idea of like artist, capital A.
23:44And thank God you shared it with people.
23:47Could you imagine?
23:49This is a terrible picture right here.
23:50You know, most of them are on that.
23:51We frame them over there.
23:52This is terrible.
23:53But I'm like, I think I don't know what...
23:56It started out...
23:57Lord Coleman, present us your shield.
24:02Well, this is it.
24:05My favorite...
24:07My favorite plant.
24:08I don't know why I decided to go for a Madagascar cactus.
24:13Two of them at home.
24:14And I thought that's the first thing I thought of because I like looking at it.
24:17My favorite role.
24:18I think that looks like it.
24:19That's Bayard Rustin in the movie Rustin.
24:22And I've got a tooth that's knocked out over here.
24:24So I thought that's good.
24:25He's got a lot of hair.
24:26Doing political stuff and making sure that we're all...
24:28And then this is my astrological sign, which is Sagittarius, an arrow shooting up towards
24:34the stars.
24:35This, to represent my hometown, yes.
24:38Is that a Liberty Bell?
24:41It is!
24:42It's the Liberty Bell!
24:43It's cracked.
24:44But then I thought my brain went dead because I was like, I don't know how to draw a bell
24:47apparently.
24:48What is that?
24:49I think it might be.
24:50That's going to be a butt plug.
24:51Or a butt plug.
24:52That's what it is.
24:53It's the Liberty Butt Plug.
24:54Well, Lord Coleman, it is my pleasure and privilege to induct you into the Royal Court.
25:01Hang in there.
25:02We shall proceed with the knighting.
25:04I knight thee Lord Coolman Domingo, future Eagle Taver.
25:09Oh, thank you.
25:13And a parting gift for you.
25:16Oh, this is cool.
25:17Isn't that cool?
25:18Okay, this is really cool.
25:19Royal Court.
25:20I love it.
25:21Wait, and it's me for a left-handed person?
25:22Get into it.
25:24I'm so into that because I'm left-handed.
25:25Look at that.
25:26Well, Lord Coleman, is there anything you'd like to tell my common folk or promote?
25:29Oh, you know what you can see?
25:30You can watch Sing Sing, which is out in movie theaters right now.
25:34It's also available on VOD and digital platforms.
25:39You can watch that now.
25:40You can also get ready for The Four Seasons, starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Will Forte,
25:46myself.
25:47You can follow me as well if you want to.
25:49King of Bingo.
25:50You're the king of our hearts, Coleman.
25:51Thank you so much.
25:52Gods, take him away.
25:53Goodbye.
25:55Off with his head.