We did these monologues in class from Shakespeare plays. So I feel like in some way, shape, or form, I’m taking on that legacy.ĬOLTER: Yeah, I started in high school and basically started my own drama club with my English teacher. She wanted to go to New York, and she did, but then her mother became ill and she had to move back home. She’s proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I’m kind of taking up where she left off. I feel like I’m following her dream in a way. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. MIKE COLTER: My mother wanted to be an actress. It’s always very exciting to think about the future in regard to endless possibilities.”ĮMMA BROWN: Are your parents at all artistic? “I think I’ve just gotten started with my career. There is something incredibly satisfying about an actor who has been patient and persistent, and finally has it pay off. In the end, however, these ups and downs only make it easier to root for the 40-year-old actor. When he starred in A Soldier’s Play off-Broadway opposite Anthony Mackie, Taye Diggs, and James McDaniels in 2005, The New York Times deemed him “ the find of the production.” He’s had arcs on popular television shows like T he Good Wife, American Horror Story (he was in the second season, Coven), and The Following, but there have also been some one-season-only disappointments, such as the CW’s Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring, identical-twin soap Ringer. Until last year, his career has gone in fits and starts: He saw some success when he played boxer Big Little Willie in Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning drama Million Dollar Baby, but the roles he was offered as a result were disappointing. Raised in small-town South Carolina, Colter studied theater at the University of South Carolina and received an MFA in acting from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts. “You have to be ready when the time comes and you have to keep a keen mental focus.” “Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration … it’s mentally draining,” Colter says. That Colter feels an certain affinity for his character is important-between the stand-alone series, last year’s Jessica Jones, and next year’s Jessica-Luke-Daredevil crossover series The Defenders, he’s going to be playing him for quite a while. With Luke Cage, which is available on Netflix as of today, Colter helms a powerful cast, featuring Alfre Woodard and Mahershala Ali as the villains to his troubled hero. “I think there’s a lot of places we can go with him and I hope to develop him even more.” He’s a straightforward kind of guy, and he doesn’t take a lot of nonsense, doesn’t suffer fools,” he continues. “He has his issues, but for the most part he’s a no-B.S. “Luke is one of the more redeeming characters that I’ve played,” explains actor Mike Colter, star of Netflix’s new superhero drama Luke Cage. GROOMING: LAURA DE LEON /JOE MANAGEMENT USING CHANEL. MIKE COLTER AT RR DONNELLY’S DSG STUDIO IN NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 2016.
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