Lawyer Jeffrey Deskovic innocently asks if playing John “Divine G” Whitfield in A24’s “Sing Sing” is actor Colman Domingo’s biggest role. Next to him sits the real John Whitfield, who thinks deeply and factors performances in films like “Rustin” and “The Color Purple.”
There’s certainly a possibility, he concludes. Domingo scored an Oscar nomination for Best Actor this year for playing Whitfield. He joins Denzel Washington as the only Black actors nominated for the category in back-to-back years.
However, the performance is undoubtedly the most important to Whitfield and Deskovic, who met with the AmNews on Feb. 5 at Manhattan’s Angelika Film Center, where the movie was re-released. “Sing Sing” follows a “based on a true story” play production put on by Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a prison theater program Whitfield helped establish in the mid-90s. The true plot, however, lies in Domingo’s version of Whitfield, who unravels between rehearsals…
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