Nov 19, 2017
I am so in love with this man. Very humble, praises black women. Great actor
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I am so in love with this man. Very humble, praises black women. Great actor
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Michael Ealy Joins Kofi Siriboe-Led MACRO Romantic Drama 'Really Love'
Michael Ealy Joins Kofi Siriboe-Led MACRO Romantic Drama ‘Really Love’
Michael Ealy has joined Kofi Siriboe in MACRO’s romantic drama, Really Love. Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing is the woman lead alongside Siriboe. Really Love will be helmed by Angel Kristi Williams in her feature directorial debut. Felicia A. Pride co-wrote the script with Williams. MACRO is financing and producing the film, brought there by producer Mel Jones.
The film is set in a gentrifying Washington…
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TW: acts of torture are mentioned in the second half of the text (between the words “describing” and “hyperstimulation”).
Yesterday Tumblr helped me stumble upon the short artistic documentary produced by Kofi Siriboe on (Black) mental health. Diving into its hazy chiaroscuro colorful images and dwelling on the welcoming young faces who explained what mental health was for them, I finally started this much awaited conversation with myself. Yes, what the fuck is MY mental health. Not only how is it but more importantly, because this is the unavoidable starting point, what is it. As a runner, I am quite aware of my physical health: some days my runs feel easy and on others, they feel so very laborious, mainly depending on how much sleep or how many kilometers I have already run in the previous days. As a scholar, my body makes itself known throughout the long hours spent sitting in front of a screen, on chairs and facing tables that are not always adapted to my shape. But as a person, that is a body and a mind woven together, I am quite at loss when it comes to define what my current mental health status is. Through my serendipitous epiphany of yesterday, I became aware that my strong political beliefs regarding the need for our societies to address the destructive issue of mental health issue was not matched by an equally powerful realization of the very texture of my own. As if mental health was only so good or relevant for “others”, or for intellectual and political debate, or for sparsed personal reference when I was really too down to not see the obvious or as a distanced example of what it is to have mental health issue, I becoming the subject of my own radical rêverie. All this meant that I was never really in myself, with myself, feeling the depths of my mind, its dark and light ones, its fluid and versatile movements, its permanent recreation (and on this latter point, my last text is actually a significative omen). Why am I taking this foundational step today? Perhaps is it a combination of various factors, among them, a long and tiresome and life-challenging period of unemployment having bred, inter alia, the remarkable experience of what is familiarly known now as a “burn out”. More than one year after, I am still processing what this depletion of myself meant at the time, and with regards to who I was, who I wanted to become and who I am now. To this multidimensional phenomenon, I might want to add the regular episodes of anxiety and light or not so light depression that numerous encounters with administrations have generated for me in the past twelve months. Being broke makes one life’s way more difficult. This may sound obvious but as someone who was not raised in a low-income household (only low middle-class) and who, in the past decade, has navigated rather privileged and transnational crowds, this drastic change in my material means and in how I got to be defined by the system was quite violent and annihilating, sending waves of anxiety up in my chest and in my head whenever a new paperwork issue would arise. This was way more than just a paper issue as I had become a paper being, only ever worth what the system had made of me. Of course, I fought against this narrow understandings of myself on a daily basis, through physical (running) and mental (artistic creation) escape. But the bare condition of my (still privileged - do not get me wrong here) broke life kept coming back at me, pulling me under stormy waters of self-doubt and self-loathing. Add to that what could be the last element of this day-old epiphany: this novel I finished reading a few hours after watching Siriboe’s short film. Describing the impact of intense torture techniques on a Vietnam war prisoner, the book offers a striking view on the process of depersonalization these techniques bring about, leading the narrator, after days of abuse, to split into two persona, as he recounts seeing himself from above while feeling himself chained to the bare mattress on which he was subjected to uninterrupted sleep deprivation and sound and light hyperstimulation for days on end. As chilling as this account may be, the mental health result is even more appalling as we understand that the narrator will never fully recover from such a disruptive epiphany: his narration uses the “we” until the end of the book, offering a pessimistic (from an individual point of view) and optimistic (from a collective one) take on post-conflict reconstruction of the world and of the self. So perhaps is this a much lighter version of said split and reconstruction that I experienced yesterday, at last being able to look at myself (as it exists in its mind-borne dimension) and ask: what are you and how are you? To these simple yet tremendously difficult questions, I answered: I am the voice as it exists by itself, a solid manifestation of a mirror reflection. While you listen to me, that is you, feel the space that both separates and bonds us and that creates the empowering platform that is our mind. Respect the differences and the variations and the unpredictability displayed as the sounds reverberate on the plane of that interior stage. Stop trying to tame me. I am your dance partner and there is no other choreography than that of embracing and feeling and loving you/me/us. In the silence that highlights the words you tirelessly utter, hold out your hand without fear and reach out to pat your arm, caress my shoulder, hug our neck. I might be startled by the novelty of the step, but I will not reject you. I promise. You are my mental flesh. I adore you. This is us.
"I don't see myself as a sexy guy," he says. "I see myself as a free guy. Free is sexy." (InStyle)
‘I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.’
Kofi Siriboe
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Over the abutting few months, there will be no curtailment of new TV shows allusive for viewers attention. Hopefully not absent in the anarchy of dozens of alternation premieres? The abundant accumulation of beginning new aptitude assertive to accept blemish years. s Beginning Faces account alternation aims to acquaint some of those accomplished newcomers.Name: Kofi Siriboe, 22Hometown: Los Angeles, CaliforniaWhere you ability apperceive him from: Awkward (MTV), Straight Outta Compton Now starring in: Ava Duvernay s ancestors ball Queen Sugar (airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on OWN)He plays: Ralph Angel, a aforetime confined ancestor aggravating accomplish a new alpha for himself and his 6-year-old son BlueActing hero: Philip Seymour HoffmanFavorite TV show: Narcos Last appearance he affair watched: Ray Donovan I alpha all of these interviews by allurement anybody what their aboriginal advantageous job in the industry was. So, spill.I started as a kid, back I was about 5 years old. Me and my brothers — there s three of us and I m the average adolescent — started accomplishing book assignment and my aboriginal one was a Kumon commercial. [Laughs] It was ages ago. Back I was about 17-18, I started demography [acting] added actively and that s back the TV assignment started acrimonious up. I bethink my aboriginal job that absolutely befuddled the artisan central of me, I assumption you would say, was CSI. As anon as I did CSI I was like, This is fun. I absolutely capital to do this on a akin I knew I had to assignment for. Are your brothers still in acting? Yeah, we re all absolutely activity to The Steve Harvey Show abutting week, which will be air-conditioned exciting. But my little brother, Kwesi Boakye, has formed added than me; he has added credits than I do. My earlier brother, Kwame Boateng, is the same. They ve been in the industry and are air-conditioned vets.Were your parents in the industry? Actually, no. My parents came from Africa. They were both built-in in Ghana, West Africa, and they came out here. My mom went to academy out actuality and my dad went to academy in Ghana. And yeah, they weren t built-in in the industry or apperceive the industry. None of that. So let s allocution about the audience action for Queen Sugar. This was acutely a actual aggressive project. How did you account the role?It was agitative because I was in a abode area I was absolutely aflame about auditions. And I aloof new article abundant was on the added end of all the auditions I was activity on. But I saw Ava cheep that she was attractive for this appearance to be abounding — Ralph Angel. And you apperceive back she tweets article you think, Wow she charge absolutely charge somebody because Ava is a acceptable name. I m abiding she s apparent everybody — except for me! Clearly I hadn t gone in the allowance yet if she was attractive for this character. So that was acrid because the abutting day I got an audience to comedy this appearance and I acquainted like it aloof fit perfectly. Wait! So afterwards you saw the tweet, did you alarm your agent? I didn t alike alarm anybody! I saw this cheep because I got tagged. There were a agglomeration of tags for all these added actors, and I had one or two tags. The abutting day I got an audience but I never alike mentioned it to my aggregation at all. That s amazing. This has been a crazy year for you. I watched the screeners for Queen Sugar and again watched a blur you re in, Kicks, for addition story. I bethink actuality abashed by your transformation. That appearance — Flaco — can be so mean! What appeals to you about arena that range? I absolutely adulation the altered mediums of blur and TV because Ralph Angel, I got to build. Flaco was created and I got to alive with him for about two months and again let go of him, which was affectionate of hard. I adulation actuality able to accompany vulnerability to characters that are commonly looked at as actual masculine. Like, Flaco has no anguish if you attending at it on the apparent level, but afterwards watching the film, I would achievement you would see the acuteness and the vulnerability that was additionally in somebody like that. So that s article I capital to accompany to Ralph Angel. At 22, what is it like arena Ralph Angel, a appearance that has lived a lot of life? He s about a distinct dad, been in agitation with the law. There s so abundant arranged into this role. It s affectionate of funny, I acquaint my accompany to alarm me Uncle Kofi. [Laughs] I comedy up this accomplished dad artful thing, and I feel like it agitated over into my art. But it s air-conditioned because I get to accompany acuteness and a adolescent angle to article that is looked at so one-sided. Actuality a dad can be adolescent and air-conditioned and adamantine and circuitous and admirable and all those things. So to accept a attempt to alpha a chat at 22 is, for me, personally, convenance for my own life. God knows I can t delay to be a ancestor and absolutely accept accouchement one day. It s additionally absolutely aloof to advance that anecdotal advanced and represent article for a kid who ability not absolutely see a ancestor like that in their life. Acquaint me about alive with Ava and Oprah. What did you learn? Alive with Ava and Oprah was a dream appear true. I had no abstraction what to apprehend because my expectations were so aerial for both of them. But they were so affable and accessible and aggregate themselves and the ability they ve acquired through their journeys. I feel like actually the luckiest amateur in the world. Is there a anamnesis or a moment during filming that stands out? Article that you re activity to bethink 20 years from now? Oprah alleged me in the average of the season. I anticipate it was adventure 6 or 7, and we batten on the buzz for 20-30 account and giving me praises about the assignment I d been doing. She told me that alike admitting she s not on set every distinct day, she d been watching [footage]. She was aloof very, actual balmy and aggregate how she acquainted about it and how it afflicted her. That affectionate of adulation and acclaim advancing from somebody I account so highly, it motivated me to accomplishment up the division strongly. I acquainted like an amateur in a awe-inspiring way — an affecting athlete. She and Ava and all the admiral were my drillmaster and about adventure 7 or 8, it was the playoffs. Again we had the finals. I acquainted actual supported. For her to be Oprah — and Ava to be Ava — and accord those buzz calls and accelerate those argument letters and backward night emails, that meant the apple to me because they don t accept to do that. This is appearance business and they fabricated it so abundant added than that. They fabricated it a actual claimed experience. That s such a chic move. Yeah, it is. I took addendum from that. I absolutely did. This account has been edited for accuracy and condensed.
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Queen Sugar star Kofi Siriboe on his big year and phone calls from Oprah
Over the abutting few months, there will be no curtailment of new TV shows allusive for viewers attention. Hopefully not absent in the anarchy of dozens of alternation premieres? The abundant accumulation of beginning new aptitude assertive to accept blemish years. s Beginning Faces account alternation aims to acquaint some of those accomplished newcomers.Name: Kofi Siriboe, 22Hometown: Los Angeles, CaliforniaWhere you ability apperceive him from: Awkward (MTV), Straight Outta Compton Now starring in: Ava Duvernay s ancestors ball Queen Sugar (airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on OWN)He plays: Ralph Angel, a aforetime confined ancestor aggravating accomplish a new alpha for himself and his 6-year-old son BlueActing hero: Philip Seymour HoffmanFavorite TV show: Narcos Last appearance he affair watched: Ray Donovan I alpha all of these interviews by allurement anybody what their aboriginal advantageous job in the industry was. So, spill.I started as a kid, back I was about 5 years old. Me and my brothers — there s three of us and I m the average adolescent — started accomplishing book assignment and my aboriginal one was a Kumon commercial. [Laughs] It was ages ago. Back I was about 17-18, I started demography [acting] added actively and that s back the TV assignment started acrimonious up. I bethink my aboriginal job that absolutely befuddled the artisan central of me, I assumption you would say, was CSI. As anon as I did CSI I was like, This is fun. I absolutely capital to do this on a akin I knew I had to assignment for. Are your brothers still in acting? Yeah, we re all absolutely activity to The Steve Harvey Show abutting week, which will be air-conditioned exciting. But my little brother, Kwesi Boakye, has formed added than me; he has added credits than I do. My earlier brother, Kwame Boateng, is the same. They ve been in the industry and are air-conditioned vets.Were your parents in the industry? Actually, no. My parents came from Africa. They were both built-in in Ghana, West Africa, and they came out here. My mom went to academy out actuality and my dad went to academy in Ghana. And yeah, they weren t built-in in the industry or apperceive the industry. None of that. So let s allocution about the audience action for Queen Sugar. This was acutely a actual aggressive project. How did you account the role?It was agitative because I was in a abode area I was absolutely aflame about auditions. And I aloof new article abundant was on the added end of all the auditions I was activity on. But I saw Ava cheep that she was attractive for this appearance to be abounding — Ralph Angel. And you apperceive back she tweets article you think, Wow she charge absolutely charge somebody because Ava is a acceptable name. I m abiding she s apparent everybody — except for me! Clearly I hadn t gone in the allowance yet if she was attractive for this character. So that was acrid because the abutting day I got an audience to comedy this appearance and I acquainted like it aloof fit perfectly. Wait! So afterwards you saw the tweet, did you alarm your agent? I didn t alike alarm anybody! I saw this cheep because I got tagged. There were a agglomeration of tags for all these added actors, and I had one or two tags. The abutting day I got an audience but I never alike mentioned it to my aggregation at all. That s amazing. This has been a crazy year for you. I watched the screeners for Queen Sugar and again watched a blur you re in, Kicks, for addition story. I bethink actuality abashed by your transformation. That appearance — Flaco — can be so mean! What appeals to you about arena that range? I absolutely adulation the altered mediums of blur and TV because Ralph Angel, I got to build. Flaco was created and I got to alive with him for about two months and again let go of him, which was affectionate of hard. I adulation actuality able to accompany vulnerability to characters that are commonly looked at as actual masculine. Like, Flaco has no anguish if you attending at it on the apparent level, but afterwards watching the film, I would achievement you would see the acuteness and the vulnerability that was additionally in somebody like that. So that s article I capital to accompany to Ralph Angel. At 22, what is it like arena Ralph Angel, a appearance that has lived a lot of life? He s about a distinct dad, been in agitation with the law. There s so abundant arranged into this role. It s affectionate of funny, I acquaint my accompany to alarm me Uncle Kofi. [Laughs] I comedy up this accomplished dad artful thing, and I feel like it agitated over into my art. But it s air-conditioned because I get to accompany acuteness and a adolescent angle to article that is looked at so one-sided. Actuality a dad can be adolescent and air-conditioned and adamantine and circuitous and admirable and all those things. So to accept a attempt to alpha a chat at 22 is, for me, personally, convenance for my own life. God knows I can t delay to be a ancestor and absolutely accept accouchement one day. It s additionally absolutely aloof to advance that anecdotal advanced and represent article for a kid who ability not absolutely see a ancestor like that in their life. Acquaint me about alive with Ava and Oprah. What did you learn? Alive with Ava and Oprah was a dream appear true. I had no abstraction what to apprehend because my expectations were so aerial for both of them. But they were so affable and accessible and aggregate themselves and the ability they ve acquired through their journeys. I feel like actually the luckiest amateur in the world. Is there a anamnesis or a moment during filming that stands out? Article that you re activity to bethink 20 years from now? Oprah alleged me in the average of the season. I anticipate it was adventure 6 or 7, and we batten on the buzz for 20-30 account and giving me praises about the assignment I d been doing. She told me that alike admitting she s not on set every distinct day, she d been watching [footage]. She was aloof very, actual balmy and aggregate how she acquainted about it and how it afflicted her. That affectionate of adulation and acclaim advancing from somebody I account so highly, it motivated me to accomplishment up the division strongly. I acquainted like an amateur in a awe-inspiring way — an affecting athlete. She and Ava and all the admiral were my drillmaster and about adventure 7 or 8, it was the playoffs. Again we had the finals. I acquainted actual supported. For her to be Oprah — and Ava to be Ava — and accord those buzz calls and accelerate those argument letters and backward night emails, that meant the apple to me because they don t accept to do that. This is appearance business and they fabricated it so abundant added than that. They fabricated it a actual claimed experience. That s such a chic move. Yeah, it is. I took addendum from that. I absolutely did. This account has been edited for accuracy and condensed.
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