Oprah Winfrey Celebrating your Valentine’s Day a different type of love – celebrating between friends and creative partners for a long time – as he saluted Callman domingo For his acclaimed performance in “Sing Sing”.
Winfrey said, “This is an invitation I could not pass,”
And Winfrey did not have to travel far. Broadcasting legend is a long -time Montecito resident, so the festival is practically in its backyard. In addition, Winfrey is also the previous recipient of the same award, honored for his work in “The Butler” in 2014, where his friendship with Domingo began.
“I am here with a divine order,” Winfrey told the crowd about full-cycle circumstances. “Because his mother, Edith, knew that his son was gift. He did not just tell him; She knew her inside her soul. She knew that she had talent, and that talent was noticeable – so much that during the years of ‘The Opra Winfrey Show’, Edith Bowls looked honestly every day and he wrote to me who told me that How talented his son was. ,
However, Bowls’ letters did not reach the Winfrey at the time, and the bowls passed away in 2006, “Edith Bowls is still working on the other side, and has brought us together for such a time,” Winfrey has brought us together Said, “Tear Domingo saw.
Winfrey and Domingo have collaborated many times since-as co-stars in “The Butler” and 2014 “Selma”, then the musical of “The Color Purple” in 2023 as the manufacture Playing derogatory Mr. in remagins. He also formed a team for adaptation to the audible of Domingo’s play “Wild with Happy”. But his work in “Sing Sing” blew him up.
Winfrey said about the portrayal of Domingo, “I am personally familiar with his abilities, and still, when I saw what he did in ‘Sing, Sing,’, I thought I thought I did not see anything like that Hai, “Winfrey said about the portrayal of Domingo’s John” Divine G “Whitfield, who was a member of a real -life theater congregation for disorganized men and whose story is the basis of the A24 film. “This optimistic story of human connection shows us that there is still a chance to heal. I was blown away by such courageous and raw and authentic story. ,
Opra Vinfrey presented the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to the Colman Domingo.
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Winfrey’s tender remarks capted on an emotional evening, where Domingo saw his career back About two hours conversation With Roger Darling, Executive Director of Sbiff. The special program marked another important stop on the awards season circuit, as Domingo is nominated for the Best Actor at the Academy Awards. After recognition to portray Bearerd Rustin in Netflix’s “Rustin”, it is his second consecutive best actor, which makes him the first person since Denjel Washington to get a back-to-back nomination in the category.
“The thing that I like very much about the colon is always in search of work,” Winfrey told Diversity Moments after the offstage. “What is amazing about this moment – each time when he steps out and beds us with another great dress or we see him in another magnificent scene – so it’s to achieve the goal to achieve it Was not to be in service for work only. And now we get to see that energy and effort and love and passion after this. How do you think it is going to come. “
Winfrey may be related, as it happened to him too – at the height of his talk show. “I know what it looks like at the center – really on your getting up. And to be able to achieve it, to be enough to mature and open it with love, and to bless others to be able to use it, that’s why it is just just to see it It is so bedding. ,
Winfrey and Domingo are settled on a small couch in the backstage dressing room. He is just smiling a bit because Winfrey said he found so extraordinary about his performance in “Sing Sing”.
“I felt that I was watching part of my soul there. A raw and a peel of a vulnerability and layers were about to be a peel, “Winfrey said.
A few moments stand in his mind: when the divine ji of Domingo explains that prisoners do not call each other an N-word, but refer to each other as “dear”; Or when he, the stable leader of the congregation, suffers from a breakdown on the stage; And at a cool moment at the end of the film, where, Winfrey said, “He is a kind of masculinity and a kind of personality, which is so hopeful and inspiring that it seems that it (Domingo), as well as that at that time The character also feels. ” Turning to Domingo, he continued: “You were able to feel that at the depths of your own. And he is coming from such a real place. Then he has that throat and I am on the floor (crying). ,
“It’s fun,” Domingo then said, about the time of projects, the co-star of his “color purple”, Taraji P. Received a recent conversation with Henson. Domingo did triple duty in 2023 – shooting “Sing Sing” in 18 days between “The Color Purple” and “Rustin”.
“The day we wrapped, I flew to New York. I had a day off, and then I started production, ”he explained. “So I would like to believe that ‘Rang Purple’ prepared me. I had already taken myself to the part that was emerged and was really raw and open.” The opposite is acting, who has real life experience, Domingo explained, “I knew I had to bring a part of me anytime.”
Everything is connected, the Winfrey agreed: “Not a single thing that is happening to you that you can’t really use another time in your life. This is true, whether you are an actor or whatever you are doing in your life, everything is constructing everything. ,
Coalman Domingo and SBIFF’s Roger Darling Santa speaks on stage at the Montesito Award ceremony during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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On stage, Domingo referred to “Sing Sing” as a “calm act of revolution” because due to illustration of vulnerability and emotional intimacy among black men – rarely is seen on the screen. Keeping in mind that Domingo’s concern about Hollywood’s recent Rollback of DEI Pahal, especially in the future, in the future?
Domingo said, “The strange thing is that I will tell you that I see my productive partner, Raul (Domingo, who is also her husband).” I believe and believe that we will find partners and people. We are just Roll your sleeve. May I be ready to play Rustin – you just roll up your sleeves and you work.
Domingo pointed to how to create “singing sing” as an example: The film was independently funded, with a low budget, so they are mainly for an artist for an artist for inconsistent men in the east Permission was not to be sought. “There are four professional actors,” he said. “This is not sexy for those common people who are funding (movies), but we are liked,” No, we are going to make a difference in the way we make a difference. ”
He has interacted with his comrades about the status of the industry and has similar to his tech. “You have to get ownership. You have to believe that, as my friend David Oyelovo says, we can become their studio, ”Domingo continued. “We can do the work that we believe in, and then present it and find platforms for it, find partners, build bridges. I think this is the way to do. I am not afraid. Things are going to happen in the way they are going to happen, but I am going to keep my nose down and work. ,
How does Winfrey see it? “Just the way he sees it,” she responded with a smile, as the pair woke up to stand, then floated from the room to continue the festival.
