Denzel Washington: He meant everything to me. The first two roles I played in college were ‘The…

“ He meant everything to me. The first two roles I played in college were ‘The Emperor Jones’ and ‘Othello,’ which were two of his. He was the north star. It was James Earl Jones. For me and for us, being in the theater in New York in the late ’70s, theater was what I thought I was going to do, to play ‘The Emperor Jones’ like James. I wanted to be James Earl Jones. To be honest with you, when I started there weren’t a whole lot of Black people for me to be like. We weren’t the leading men.

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James Earl Jones mourned by ‘Star Wars’ icons, Denzel Washington and…

James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93

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