I too was desperate for someone to reach out.I was seeing myself on the television for the first time. It spoke to the man I was and the boy I had been.I too wore my pain and loneliness like skin. "I was 22 years old when a music video changed my life.I cannot overstate how important Rhythm Nation was to my lost and aching 22-year-old self. And he, like, wanted to be a demonstrator of that." "One of the things he talked about a lot was how young men, especially young Black men, were not taught to get out there with their feelings and be vulnerable. "To his credit, he was very open from the beginning," he said.
"I started out helping him with something, and I ended up being in charge of his legacy," said Sternfeld, who has co-written books with Senators Tom Daschle and Trent Lott and author/advocate Jim St. His death came about a month before the manuscript was due. Williams' co-author, Jon Sternfeld, said the two worked on the book for more than two years, talking extensively about the actor's life in recorded interviews. "He would have wanted us to elevate this conversation about what it is to turn pain into art." "It's just understanding that.Michael would have wanted this," Dupont said. He also produced a gripping, revelatory memoir, completed weeks after his death, detailing a long struggle with addiction and self-doubt.ĭominic Dupont, Williams' nephew, said he copes with his uncle's unexpected death by honoring this legacy as an actor and activist. Getty Images Michael Kenneth Williams and Dominic Dupont at the season 6 premiere of Vice on HBO in 2018.īut the actor leaves behind a legacy of amazing characters: Omar Little from The Wire, the streetwise, uncompromising robber of drug dealers 1920s-era gangster Albert "Chalky" White on Boardwalk Empire top dog Riker's Island inmate Freddie Knight in The Night Of and abusive, closeted gay father Montrose Freeman on Lovecraft Country.
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