Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I am so very excited to bring you this week my conversation with Coleman Domingo. If you're just learning the name, well, don't worry, you're not alone.

Coleman Domingo has been doing theater. He's been doing Broadway and movies and writing plays and directing and doing all kinds of things for many, many years.

But now, finally, he is getting his moment in the spotlight with all kinds of nominations for his performance in the film Rustin, which tells the untold story of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights activist, who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

He did it.

He was the brains behind it.

He was the energy behind it, of course,

where Martin Luther King delivered the I Have a Dream speech with Byard Rustin standing right

behind him. Why don't you know the name Byard Rustin? Bired Rustin was a gay man in 1950s and

1960s America and was pushed to the side because the people organizing the movements,

organizing the events, thought it would make them targets and they would be seen as radicals.

And now, thanks to this performance by Coleman Domingo, as the title character, Rustin,

the story is being told and being told in such an amazing way.

I think you're going to love getting to know Coleman Domingo the way I did. I hadn't met him before.

My gosh, is he charming and smart and talented? He's emotional about his journey and finding this

place now at 54 years old, been around for a long time, has been in

community theater, has done it all. So we actually got together at the public theater,

the famed public theater in New York City, where so much off-Broadway work begins. Some of it

goes to Broadway and beyond. And it's where he got his break effectively in 2006 through an audition that I will let

him tell you about because it is so incredible. He's won an Emmy for his performance in

Euphoria playing alongside Zendaya. He was in Fear the Walking Dead for eight seasons. He's

in the color purple. He was in 42 in the butler. He's had a bunch

of movie roles, but certainly this is the biggest yet and getting tons of love for it. So I'm

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