Colman Domingo says he enjoys pursuing a wide range of projects.
Between writing recent musicals about Donna Summer and Nat King Cole and starring in Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the multihyphenate must be having a hell of a time.How does the film bring James Baldwin’s world to life?Barry Jenkins and his production designers were very in tune with Baldwin’s language, making sure that it was represented in the environment.
I love the fact that we weren’t on a soundstage.
We filmed all of the family scenes in apartments in Harlem; we were in a brownstone in the neighborhood where their stories took place.
So it had all the feel, even the sound, even the air of what James Baldwin’s intentions were.
Everything was the way I imagined it to be.What was it like on the set?
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