Colman Domingo on finding success in Hollywood later in life: “It does appear that I’ve made it”

 It’s funny because I never thought that I had made it until recently. I’m like, “Okay, well, I guess it wasn’t a fluke.” I was nominated one year and I’m back again, so somebody likes what I’m selling. [Laughs] But I feel like I’ve always had an aversion to the phrase, “making it,” because I feel like I’ve got so much more to learn, to experience, to achieve that is very personal. But on the outside now, it does appear that I’ve made it. I mean, I can take myself for a good meal when I want to and not think twice about it.

…I come from a very humble background. Mom and Dad didn’t give me anything, so there was nothing to go back to. I could only achieve. The thing that I’m most proud of, and I don’t say this often, is that I built this career. No one gave me anything. No one opened the door for me. But I said, “I’m going to get in somehow. I’m going to come through a chink in the wall, but I’m going to get there at some point.” No one’s going to tell you how to build it.Two-time Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo, 55, speaking to Interview magazine about “making it” in Hollywood.