Omar J. Dorsey Interview

Omar J. Dorsey is what you would call an actor who was born to be an actor. With the theatrically strong voice, fully able to be heard across many of the surrounding low-set booths of Burbank's classic Bob's Big Boy Restaurant during our chat this week, the expressive facial and hand gestures, and the all-around profound presence. It's a bit hard not to watch and be captivated. That is, until the famously inner 'shit talking guy' comes out. I sat down with the Django Unchained star to talk about the new movie, having drinks at Leo's, married life, and predicting who would be 2009's Best Actress winner-- before anyone else.



Just want to start off by saying I’m not just here to talk about what Leo DiCaprio is like on set, although that is a subject I’ll be landing on eventually. Want to start out with the gist of Django Unchained, what would you say the movie is about and what will moviegoers get from it?
It's a movie about slavery. It's also about a slave who's freed by a German bounty hunter, and they become bounty hunters together.

The German bounty hunter is played by Christoph Waltz.

Christoph plays the German who's the bounty hunter, who tries to pay-- I don't want to tell you the story! He gets Jamie [Foxx, who plays Django] and they do a couple of jobs, and he frees Jamie, but they become partners. The story is a love story also, about a man trying to find his wife who's still in slavery. 

Waltz and Foxx in Unchained (Entertainment Weekly)

Played by Kerry Washington.
Yes. She ends up going from different places to different places, but ultimately ends at Calvin Candie's plantation [played by Leonardo DiCaprio] and that's roughly where a third of the movie is centered around. Them being at Calvin Candie's plantation, meeting up with Calvin, and trying to find Django's wife. 

So would you say it's ultimately a story about finding freedom or finding love?
Ultimately it's a story about love, it's a love story. It's about the lengths a man would take to get his love back. Through death, through whatever it takes. Aspiring to get back to his one true love   ... and there's a lot of violence in it because it's Quentin Teaantino.

Maury Sterling Interview

When you think of Maury Sterling you could picture a focused henchman sworn to protect, a crazed flare-wheeling 3^rd part of a family assassin trio with a drawn-on Hitler mustache, or a swoon-worthy bring-home-to-mother-approved stud. The visions are endless (and would we want them any other way?). A Mill Valley, California native with a draw for action roles, at 41 he's one of Hollywood’s most promising talents. I sat down to talk with the actor (in the most claustrophobic while also completely satisfying situation I've ever been in) at Hollywood's trendy Bourgeois Pig to talk about his work on Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama Homeland, his draw for good writing, and being swooned after by older ladies with Chris Pine and Kevin Durand.

After finding the coziest, faux moss and shrubbery surrounded sitting nook for-two in the dark set cafe to conduct our interview, not until Sterling arrived and took his seat did I realize how close together we would be, or just how handsome he is. I probably should've taken some deep breaths to prepare myself.  I receive a steaming hot cup of green tea as Sterling gets more comfortable.

      Just wanted to start out by saying your character in 2006's Smokin’ Aces has to be one of my favorites. Always enjoy the crazy Tremor Brothers. Could barely recognize Chris Pine. You seem to be a very cool and collected guy, what was the experience like of transforming into such a wild character?

      Thank you for saying that I'm cool and collected, it's only on the outside. It was a blast. The audition process was fun because it was the kind of audition that I looked at and read the sides and read the character description and thought, "There is no way in hell I will ever play this part." And I think because of that-- and I remember talking to my manager at the time and saying "Seriously? They want me for this?" and he's like, "Yeah, just go in." and I said, [shrugs] "Alright." So I think that helped because I went in with complete abandon, like I had nothing to lose. Which worked. I just threw myself into it, said "I'm going to go nuts." The actual transformation into the character was your question right?

Sterling, Durand and Pine as The Tremor Brothers in 2006's Aces

relevance

I close my eyes and imagine what it must be like to have to maintain relevance in order to be able to succeed at work. I close my eyes and try to rack my brain for why I would ever want that for myself.

"Relevancy is the true tool of the powerful. Relevancy involves an audience. You can't be relevant to nobody. You have to create and nurture it. You have to know what that audience craves. One of the things I like most about good music is that it captures this idea perfectly. Musicians have a particular subset of people that they speak to, and adapt their music and their message to it." "Create an audience. It's a lot of trial and error, but art is one of those things that has to be done to really "get." And keep yourself relevant to that audience. The audience isn't so much a bunch of people as it is a creation that happens to resonate with people. An audience is an idea. They're referred to in sassy terminology, "the mid-thirties house-frou." "brooding mid-teen glampires.""

♥ Waving bye to Twi

Jackson 

Anya

Ashley

cover your tracks

heart, cover your tracks
the blood that you've spilled 
will wash what you lack

soul, sew up your wounds
test out your engine
give it some room

mind, pick up your pace
capture your thoughts
you always change

soul, open your wings
lift this cage higher than any dream

cover your tracks
sew up your wounds
pick up your pace
open your wings

heart, flush out your words
the past that was tangled
will unwrap and shed

soul, sing out your songs
clear out your throat
belt it out strong

cover your tracks
sew up your wounds
pick up your pace
open your wings

cover your tracks
cover your tracks

life is surreal

me filming 'Save Me From Love' 

11/12/12 

how things happen. how it changes.