The Tribune's Darcel Rockett sat down with Dewayne Perkins, a native South Sider, to talk “The Blackening” and learn how it ties to his idea of legacy, self-love and his future in entertainment.
It’s something that people have asked me and I just feel there should be a different way to ask it. I did a screening in Alabama and a woman asked ‘how did you feel during this process?’ She wanted me to walk through my emotional journey going through the ups and downs of the film. She wanted to hear what it’s like for ... a dream that came true and it took this amount of time.
Q: You’ve been doing comedy for a while now, including stand up, you never thought your comedy was profound or outside yourself enough?Selfishly, I do comedy for myself. I was never doing stand up like my job is to make you laugh. My job was ‘I’m good at this, laugh so these people could get me a job.’ My art is for me and in that moment, “The Blackening” was no longer about me. It wasn’t like, ‘I made a movie. It was ‘this movie gave things to so many people.
Q: You have a kind of centeredness that you could teach the next generation, have you thought about doing that?because I’m obsessed with getting any information that gets new voices into the fold. I’ve recently started supervising the development of TV shows, and it’s been so fulfilling for that reason.
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