‘I’m black, I can’t do method acting’: Brian Tyree Henry on Atlanta and Widows

The Tony-nominated actor stars in two of autumn’s biggest films, Widows and If Beale Street Could Talk.

So why has he suffered from imposter syndrome?• Donald Glover on Atlanta: ‘I’m not making a TV show, I’m making an experience’He might wear it lightly, but Brian Tyree Henry is a star.

Over the next few months he appears in two of the most anticipated films of the year: Steve McQueen’s thrilling money heist film Widows and Barry Jenkins’s poetic adaptation of James Baldwin’s classic novel If Beale Street Could Talk.

He’s playing Spider-Man’s father in next year’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animation and, of course, he retains a central role as rapper Paper Boi in Donald Glover’s Fox series Atlanta.

Aside from his ubiquity on screen, this year he was nominated for a Tony, for best featured actor in a

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