When you’re working and making money, that’s all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.
Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I’m hitting the bags and jumping rope – all that stuff.
I’ve dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I’ve dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.
I’m an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.
I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I’ve ever worked with.
I don’t really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There’s people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I’m a hands-on father, to say the least.