After three decades as a jobbing character actor in films such as Selma and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Domingo is finally taking on a starring role, but his charismatic presence was always apparent
‘The stars aligned,” says Colman Domingo, “that’s why I’m wearing stars on my boots.” He is laughing as he shows me his spotless white Chelsea boots, each with three blue stars up the back. Domingo has an explosive, contagious, almost filthy laugh that often bursts out of his otherwise mellow, succulent baritone. In voice, in dress and in person he is immensely charming.
Quite a few stars have aligned into a Domingo-shaped constellation lately. He has breakout roles in two movies and the actors’ strike has ended just in time for him to talk about them. One is The Color Purple – a lavish adaptation of the musical of Alice Walker’s seminal novel (the white boots are for a photoshoot; he doesn’t wear them all the time). The other is Rustin, a biopic of Bayard Rustin, the unsung organiser of the legendary March on Washington of 1963. Ironically, while he was a champion for Black rights, Rustin’s homosexuality and communist affiliations saw him airbrushed out of the history books. He has been called “the godfather of intersectionality”. “He was openly gay at a time when it truly would have cost him his livelihood and harm to his body,” says Domingo. “I mean, talk about cancel culture.”
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