Yahya Abdul-Mateen: How a Son of Oakland Became Hollywood's New Prince

“I didn’t grow up watching movies”: ‘Candyman’ star Yahya Abdul-Mateen on his Oakland roots and rapid rise in Hollywood.

’ but then you’re at the table-read and you hear Keanu Reeves say something, and it’s like, ‘Oh, shit. I’m in-type shit happens, and it’s like, ‘Oh, shit! I’m really inIn mid-March, production on that movie will halt.

In his adolescence, that translated to sports. He ran track in high school against Marshawn Lynch, the star NFL running back, and recalls Mistah F.A.B., the beloved Bay Area rapper, beating him in the 100-meter dash. “I graduated with a real West Oakland identity: long dreadlocks, goatee, the whole nine,” he says. “It was just part of my attitude.” But around 2012, “we got priced out.” His family settled in Stockton, in California’s Central Valley.

His hard work was met with rapid results. In 2012 he got into the prestigious Yale MFA acting program, and upon graduation was cast in Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix series“I haven’t had an apartment since,” he says, explaining that he started living out of hotels and rentals, moving from gig to gig in a blessedly unbroken chain.

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