Dominique Fishback earned acclaim in “Judas and the Black Messiah” playing Deborah Johnson, the wife of murdered Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya, who won an Oscar for the role). S…
as Ptolemy Grey, an old man who is suffering from dementia and on the brink of sinking even lower when a teenage orphan, Robyn , is assigned to care for him. The two form an unshakable bond as he undergoes a treatment that might improve his mental state, which leads them on a journey that reveals shocking truths and allows Robyn to chart a path to her future.To be honest, I was doing a bunch of press for “Judas,” and I didn’t know what I was going to do next.
I didn’t know that originally Sam saw me in “Project Power” with Jamie Foxx, and he made a call and said, “I think we found our girl.” So I didn’t know that they wanted me from the beginning, and I was a little bit less resistant, you know, ’cause again, I wanted to do something much lighter. Then I got the part, I read the script, and I read the novel by Walter Mosley and I was like, “Wow, this novel’s incredible!”Obviously you can’t take everything from a novel and put it into a screenplay.
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