A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

By the time I tested, I knew they'd gotten Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise.

During an early read-through for the screen test, you read it once and the director gives you adjustments and you do it again.

Everyone has their challenges.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

I felt like the build-up was so big that I really needed to deliver-almost more than what might have been expected from me from a first reading.

I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. There is the sense of being between communities.

I liked the script, Human Stain, a lot because it resonated with me as a minority. I thought I knew a lot of the subtext of what was going on with this character.