Capitol File Interviews Papa Pope
Scandal's Joe Morton on playing a "very smart, very intelligent, bad guy."
“You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” The truth behind Viola Davis‘s instantly canonic line, spoken during her best actress acceptance speech at the Emmy Awards on Sunday, was echoed in Capitol File magazine’s interview with Scandal’s Joe Morton.
Here’s what Papa Pope has to say about the character portfolio he built up during his years in the business:
Most of my career has been spent playing good guys. When I first started in this business, a lot of the characters that were being offered to black men in particular were drug dealers, and pimps and boogeymen of all sorts and my response was: I’ll try to put together a body of work of black men who are not boogeymen.
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