2007 Interviewer to Chiwetel Ejiofor: “As a black actor, does he find Othello lurking in the back of his mind, like K2 out there, waiting to be conquered?” Man, it's not even like they're pretending. They [white peepo] really do think it's the black man's Hamlet.
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There’s no there, there. But the comparison naturalizes something about blackness in Othello, and suggests a way to conquer or control or succumb to that construction. It’s not in any way critical about what it means for a black man to inhabit that character 2/
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To be isolated in that role and to be underserved not only by the character’s internalization of the anti-black society in which he lives but to daily revisit the violence of the other characters on Othello and his blackness. The actor is being tasked, daily, 3/
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