Robert Townsend made his own way in Hollywood when the deck was stacked against Black talent.
“I am always interested in directing something new and something fresh and something different,” Townsend said in a recent interview over Zoom. “I’m a very picky man. I don’t like any and everything.”so its episodes can play in any order. The opportunity to work with lead star Giancarlo Esposito“It was like a jigsaw puzzle,” Townsend recalled. “And I was like, ‘Ooh, I like this.’”It’s fitting.
“Hollywood Shuffle” is his most defining project, the one that transformed Robert Townsend — an actor with roots in theater, stand-up and improvisational comedy — into Robert Townsend, a director and producer who often wrote his projects and acted in them, to boot. The entertainment industry satire channeled the frustration Townsend and co-writer Keenen Ivory Wayans felt at the dearth of roles for Black actors in the 1980s.
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