In the event you’ve seen Colman Domingo on stage or on screen, you recognize there’s nothing he can’t do. That’s why it got here as no surprise this past weekend that the actor, author, and director won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Ali within the HBO hit Euphoria.

With a Tony Award already under his belt for his performance as Mr. Bones within the Broadway Musical The Scottsboro Boys, and leading roles in two of next yr’s most anticipated movies, The Color Purple musical and Rustin, achieving EGOT status seems greater than well within sight for Domingo. And he wants it.

Here we chat with the multi-faceted talent about his trajectory from bartending to Broadway, his brunch series, and constructing his profession in Hollywood.

What does one must do to get invited to Bottomless Brunch at Colman’s?

COLMAN DOMINGO: I like that that’s your first query. What you’ve to do is be one among my close friends, who also, I feel may be very interesting. I wanted people to get to know my friends the way in which I do know them. Because I feel that folks like Common or Yahya Abdul-Mateen, or Janicza Bravo, you name it, are very interesting, unique human beings. And I didn’t desire a format of an interview show that’s about promoting anything. I just wanted it to be the way in which people come to my home and have brunch and also you get to know their personalities. I discovered that very interesting and I would like to proceed to humanize the those that I like and admire.

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And there’s a private connection as well. You used to bartend, is that correct?

DOMINGO:I bartended for about 15 years of my life, that was at all times the way in which I had my hustle on. I at all times made the cash on the side. It was very flexible, so I could proceed to be the artist that I used to be striving to be. And it was also fun. I used to be a very good bartender, so it’s really permeated every a part of my life. I literally, I don’t have an issue with alcohol, but I even have three bars in my home. I even have one outside, I even have one in the nice room and I even have a small one here because, and it’s funny because I drink very moderately, but I like the thought of a cocktail when people come over and making something really interesting.

What’s your go-to cocktail?

DOMINGO: My go-to, recently, I’ve been very much within the mood for traditional cocktails. Like a Vodka Gibson. I’ve at all times drank like an old man. In college individuals are having Long Island Iced Teas and Alabama Slammers and things like that, that gave you headaches. I used to be drinking an easy Vodka Martini or an easy glass of Scotch. Summer makes me consider crisp, clean cocktails, but additionally just a little dirty. So a Gibson is just a little dirty with some wonderful onions in there.

I’m at all times curious how people persevere when in pursuit of their dreams. Whenever you were bartending, was it difficult holding onto the need to be an actor or did you mostly know you were going to make it in the future?

DOMINGO: Well, that’s an excellent query. I feel I’ve at all times had a belief and faith that good work will persevere and I knew that. I at all times tell people now, just in the event you’re bartending or doing something outside of your artist’s work, it’s still all the identical. You’re doing the thing that you’ll want to do to maintain the lights on. But hopefully you’re doing something that brings you some joy and makes you are feeling creative. And I feel that’s what bartending did. I still felt my creative self. I felt sociable. I used to be in contact with people. I used to be having great conversations. I used to be doing all of the work that I want. I take advantage of bartending in my acting work. I’m an observer of humankind.

So, I at all times had that faith because I didn’t let the bartending just take precedence over my art. It was immediately in support. So, if I worked from 9:00 PM until 4:00 AM, I’d go home and get some sleep and I’d stand up and get to work on these auditions that I’d have at 11:00 AM. And I’d keep it going. It’s all an element of it. I’d take my nap within the afternoon and stand up again and begin, go to bartend.

Once I was working off Broadway, I remember one time particularly, I used to be in a serious showcase Broadway, but sometimes off Broadway’s not paying super well. I literally would take a bow, stand up, run off stage, change my clothes, hop a taxi, get across town and be serving someone in the following quarter-hour. And so, when you realize that that’s a part of all of it, that must be an element of it. I still have to make this money and I want this bartending gig, but I’m also supporting my art and vice versa.

So, I just knew it was all one and it wasn’t a separate thing. And I’m at all times attempting to tell those that as well, after they feel like, “Oh, I even have to get an actual job.” I’m like, “That’s okay. But hopefully get something that you are feeling like helps to encourage you and encourage your art at the identical time.”

I actually just moved a few months ago so I even have my eye on a number of the items in your home entertaining collection. What are you able to tell me in regards to the pieces and the partnership behind it?

DOMINGO: It’s so dope. It’s one among the dopest things that I’ve been an element of because I got to really pick each thing. It’s all inspired by my personal style. I’m very much a classic mid-century style person in my home. I feel that things feel luxurious yet playful at the identical time. I feel that’s the aesthetic I’ve at all times gone for even the way in which that I dress. So, nothing is taking too seriously in a way. So, that’s why there’s lots of gold. There’s lots of black after which there’s pops of color, even the Born to Cocktail napkins, I believed, “Oh, that’s fun.”

So, it’s at all times like, it’s a little bit of an event, but additionally having fun. And I feel that’s what I like about it. And I feel that’s what Ketel One and Social Studies are eager about as well. So, I’m glad that we partnered on this because I actually only partner with things that I actually imagine in. I’m like, “Oh, that is dope. I like Ketel One. I like having people over. I’m at all times hosting…” And really lots of that flatware and dining room and stuff like that appears like it may possibly be in my very own kitchen. I like stoneware. I actually only have gold forks, knives and spoons.

Me too.

DOMINGO: See? Cut from the identical cloth. Because I’m like, every part needs to be an event, simply because I’m having just a little snack doesn’t mean I can’t have it on lovely stoneware and a gold fork. Why not? I feel like our lives must have more events and pomp in circumstance and you’ll be able to do it in not the costliest ways too.

Congratulations on winning an EMMY on your role on Euphoria. What do you’re keen on most about guest appearing on that series and playing Ali?

DOMINGO: I like the impact that Ali has on people whether or not they’re struggling or whether or not they struggle to like and look after someone who’s affected by the disease of addiction. I’ve received so many messages, whether it’s on Twitter or Facebook or personal messages saying, “Thanks for shedding light on this disease and humanizing these people.” And since I feel the struggle is that path to redemption for individuals who have possibly done terrible things to themselves, several things to others, lost their trust or faith on this planet, Ali is a representation of the proven fact that, I feel, you’ll be able to recuperate and that path to redemption and love, self love, a love of others. And I actually like that.

I’ve been working for a few years, but I’ve turn out to be extraordinarily popular due to Ali. And particularly, Ali has an effect on young women. And I understand it’s almost like they need that they had a charismatic, strong figure, male figure of their lives to be an equal with and say, “Hey, I see you. I support you.” Whether it’s their father or big brother or friend, cousin or something. And I feel that’s what he represents. I’m at all times getting a lot love from young women. They need to hug me. They need to sit down with me, they need to talk with me. I went by a bunch of 100 tourist girls in Washington DC a number of weeks ago. They usually all lost their minds as if I used to be the Beatles. However it was that love and admiration that I believed was so beautiful. And I actually appreciate that.

Now that you’ve a Tony and an EMMY, have you ever set your sights on being an EGOT?

DOMINGO: Yes. I’ve never been a one who… I at all times think that award is subjective, but I do understand how they move the needle on things that you just care about. So, I feel that whatever it does to amplify my work, I’m here for it. And I don’t know, I do know that I’m a author, a director, an actor, a singer, a dancer. And I feel that I even have all the talents needed to turn out to be an EGOT winner. Why not?

But I even have silly goals. Possibly I would like to be a full EGOT inside one yr. Wouldn’t that dope?

Absolutely. Well, Color Purple is next. Anything you’ll be able to tell us about production on this project?

DOMINGO: It was absolutely thrilling to play Mister, to start with, knowing that Oprah and Blitz hand picked their solid and so they entrusted me to play the middle of lots of this, whether it’s trauma or struggle and in addition some redemption as well, I feel that I gave all of it that I had. I worked alongside Fantasia, Taraji P. Henson and Corey Hawkins and Danielle Brooks who I really love and admire, Blitz is a phenomenal visionary. It’s going to be like nothing anyone has ever seen. It’s going to explore the imagination of Celie, which can be a part of her way out of her circumstance. So, to say, you’ll be able to beat the spirit down and you’ll be able to beat the body down, however the spirit is at all times soaring and that’s how we as Black people have moved through. So, I feel that that’s an incredible message.

It was hot, Atlanta is hot, but all you’ve to do is dig in and be like, “Listen, my people had it worse than this many, a few years ago. There’s nothing I can’t shoulder. So, it was a privilege to be an element of The Color Purple and Alice Walker’s incredible words. I can’t wait for everyone to see it. The songs, every part about it’s unbelievable.

You furthermore may have one other incredibly vital role, which is that of Bayard Rustin.

DOMINGO: Oh my goodness.That was gift to me.

Speak about what it meant to play him and the importance of this film that’s coming.

DOMINGO: I’m absolutely on the shoulders of greatness. Bayard Rustin is one among those men who has at all times inspired me. Knowing that our stories, especially sometimes as a part of the LGBTQ community, how we’re swept underneath the history of books. He’s the entire reason for the March on Washington because he organized it. He is also the one who inspired Dr. King along with his philosophies of passive resistance and the things that he’s learned from Gandhi, you name it. And so he’s the one who inspired Dr. King in some ways.

It’s amazing to me that it’s taken so long for his story to be told, but I’m really glad that that’s been put into my heart, into my hands, in addition to George C. Wolf, one of the vital visionary directors of the twentieth and twenty first century, actually. And it’s produced by the Obamas, every part about it’s similar to, you’re actually an element of creating history and one way or the other I’m standing deeply rooted in the course of that and I can’t feel more blessed.