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Colman Domingo will make you cry in his first project post-Oscar nomination
The Academy Award nominee plays an incarcerated man working in a prison theater troupe in an upcoming A24 film.
Get ready with your whole chest!
The first trailer for Rustin star Colman Domingo’s first project since he was nominated for an Oscar is here, and it’s got our hearts swelling!
In the upcoming drama Sing Sing, Domingo plays Divine G, a man imprisoned in the titular prison for a crime he didn’t commit who participates in a prison theater group.
As the trailer begins, G is having a clemency hearing, trying to end his sentence of 25 to life and get out of prison when he’s asked about his participation in the prison’s theater program.
“It’s been a program that was established to help people get more in touch with their feelings, and truly get some rehabilitation, and it’s turned into something, I don’t know… wonderful,” he says.
“So are you acting at all during this interview?” the clemency board asks him.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the movie follows the troupe when a “wary outsider joins” and “the inmates decide to stage their first original comedy.”
Is Domingo getting ready to earn his second Oscar nomination?
The movie is based on a true story, features real formerly incarcerated actors, and it looks like Domingo’s performance is going to, once again, blow us away. When the movie premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, Domingo won the TIFF Tribute Performer Award, so the pieces are all there.
Sing Sing also stars Sound of Metal Oscar-nominee Paul Raci, Clarence Maclin, and Sean San Jose. It’s directed by Greg Kwedar, who also wrote the screenplay with Clint Bentley.
The movie is having its U.S. premiere at SXSW this month and will be released by A24 in July.
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Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
