‘I sign on to a role to challenge my mind and my heart to confront something. I’m always trying to figure out how to navigate life, and this was a true healing experience,’ says the act…
In “Causeway,” Lynsey is home from war, having suffered a traumatic brain injury in an IED explosion. Despite her wounds, she’s not only determined to heal, but she’s also desperate to get back overseas. It’s only gradually that we learn that it’s less about an eagerness to work and more about a desire to run from the hidden wounds she’d suffered in her family’s home in New Orleans.
Playing an aspiring, then successful, rapper Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles, Henry showed his range in handling delicate emotional moments and broader humorous ones; as the show relentlessly explored the challenges Black men encounter in a White society uninterested in their success or dignity, he proved he could veer from a mellow stoner to righteous indignation with ease.
Q. “Causeway” is a quiet film with tremendous pain lurking just barely below the surface. Was that part of the appeal for you?And there’s no deep conflict or huge climax, no big “What’s going to happen here” – it’s a story of human connection and I was trying to figure out what true connectivity was in my life.
But when you find someone who can see through that loss and see you for who you are that’s a connection that is worth exploring. In “Causeway,” you watch them find a little light in each other, laughing, sharing a burger, swimming, finding normalcy. There was something intriguing and incredibly touching in that for me.
When I approach characters like this, most of that reservation for a Black man is protection. These men are stoic or quiet and if they reveal their true selves through their expressions instead of words or actions, it’s because sometimes there’s a true risk to say the truth. When I’m expressing things on my face it’s to let people know he feels things and he observes and understands but he’s also protecting himself.
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