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“I had this thought and notion that if I worked in the theater . that I would hopefully be challenged to do different kinds of parts, I would do a different range of work,” he said. “Thankfully, I think that is what enabled me to take on different kinds of roles in front of the camera.”
A lot of Lindo’s acting skills he credits to his experience as a theater performer. He described his experience playing Herald Loomis in “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” on Broadway. After a monologue in the second act, he said he was speaking to an audience member who told him that she could “feel” him all the way in the back of the theater where she was sitting.
As the old saying goes, hindsight is 2020.
And movie fans are among the throngs of people who want to see 2020 in hindsight.
It was a year in which COVID-19 brought movie theaters to the brink of extinction, causing many of Hollywood s expensive tentpole pictures to flee from their 2020 release dates to the presumed economic safety of 2021.
It was a year in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scrapped its longtime rule that films must have a theatrical release to qualify for the Oscars.
It was a year in which film critics had to forgo their customary press viewings of major motion pictures at state-of-the-art screening rooms and settle for watching them on computers or big-screen TVs.
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