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The debates were sparked in theater circles, but now audiences globally can decide for themselves when a filmed version of the play, directed by Leon and featuring the same four actors from the original croquis bague diamant production, hits Netflix on Nov. 1. (The streamer is billing it as a “Television Event.”) Before “American Son” made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival back in September, Washington flyleaf perles noir cubique zircone anneau ouvert 100 925 en argent sterling anneaux pour les femmes de haute qualite dame fine bijoux vintage sat down with The Times to look back bague diamant or jaune femme on “Scandal’s” “fairy tale of interracial love” and defend “American Son’s” controversial walk into a social justice minefield. Why go to Broadway after “Scandal” That’s the last thing I thought I’d do, because Broadway is hard! But all of the actors that I respect the most come from the theater and return to it. coque iphone I love the Denzel Washington model of, every three or four years, he goes back and does something amazing that keeps his muscles in shape as an actor. I wanted to make sure I was asking that of myself. I guess it was also a palate cleanser. This character is everything that Olivia Pope wasn’t, and that also felt like a really good challenge for me to swing the pendulum. In flyleaf ligne geometrique remontage double couche anneau ouvert vintage reel 925 anneaux en argent sterling pour les femmes de haute qualite bijoux fins what way Well, in some ways, I spent seven seasons on “Scandal” in kind of a fairy tale of interracial love. This amazing, powerful man bague diamant noir or jaune loved the . coque iphone 5 pas cher out of this woman he literally invented a war to bring her home. An unbelievable, ends of the earth love and understanding, where his racial embrace of her was so flawless that she could call him Thomas Jefferson as a dig. If there was any truth to that, she wouldn’t have said it. coque iphone 5s It’s like, “How do I make him feel like an ass I’ll say this ridiculous thing about our relationship.” So that was like the fairy tale version the Disney princess, ABC version, literally. But it can also be really hard, even when you are in a relationship with somebody whom you love so intensely but you’re having a really difficult time crossing that cultural divide and really speaking each other’s language. Also, Olivia Pope wasn’t a mother. Yeah, she julien d’orcel bague diamant chose not to be. 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It’s great because, once the play opened, I was getting all these messages on social media from people in Brazil, South Africa, the Caribbean, all over Europe people who were saying, ‘We also have issues with police violence and unconscious bias.’ Globally, this is not a unique experience to Americans. Yeah, we did it eight times a week in a theater that holds about 900 people, but now, millions of people all over the world are gonna have access to this story. coque iphone As a viewer, I was surprised by the “twists” of this piece, which were divisive among some Broadway critics. I was somewhat frustrated with the conclusion it proclaims: in this situation, everyone’s a little bit right. [Laughs] You could say we’re all a little right and we’re all very wrong. But everybody’s culpable for what happens to Jamal because of our mentalities. I feel like Kendra sweeps her blackness under the rug for so long to try to make this marriage work that she isn’t there as a black mother for her black child, and he doesn’t feel seen. His father’s culpable for not seeing his blackness, for pushing this toxic masculinity on him but you can understand where he’s coming from. I mean, my mother didn’t let my cousins walk around with their pants sagging. And then for Jeremy’s character, it’s “I’m just trying to make sure my own kids have a father tonight, so if I have to shoot you first, so be it.” That naive innocence, it’s not about race. I don’t mean to make you answer for the playwright, but what would you like to say to anyone bague diamant chainette who shrugs off this project as giving casual racists a bit too much credence For me, when I read it, and in performing it, what I loved was the complexity of it. There are huge, huge problems in law enforcement, but we are all capable of unconscious bias. And I feel like we’re at a place right now where we aren’t able to listen to each other because we all have our news channels that we watched that give us the news the way we want to hear it, and we don’t engage in conversation that makes us uncomfortable. star wars iphone 11 case If we’re triggered, we exit. I don’t follow people on Twitter who are gonna say . that makes me furious, right So we live in these isolated bubbles and we don’t really have opportunities to cross over those lines and to share our truth and to really hear each other and be open to bague diamant anneau places where we might be wrong, where our assumptions may be keeping us from our connections. That’s part of bague diamant de laboratoire what the play is challenging us to do: question our assumptions, and be willing to be in the complexity. How so It’s like, yes, there is a problem in law enforcement, but it’s not just white cops, right It’s law enforcement in general. bijoux personnalise So when a black officer enters that culture, they are vulnerable to those same ideologies. And so being willing to not simplify the issue and tackle the complexities; to say, the system of police in this country was born out of capturing slaves.