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And I feel like the moments that stick out to me between myself and the men in my family are the times when they are being softer, more vulnerable, more loving. I was 15 or 16, and was a fish out of water. So that started to form my identity and who I am. And I played that role of a protector and provider really well.

But this time, our leading man is Black, gay, and battling to break from the toxic masculinity that is rife in his household. Learn his wiki/bio on age, birthday, parents, siblings, ethnicity, height, and net worth from career. You were nothing like your daddy or like me, you were soft.

I empathize with someone in his position. I feel like every man would want that for their children. That, to butcher a famous soliloquy, is the question. What is it to be a strong man? So I think those ideas of strength and protection — these masculine motifs that we put forward — are fine, but we have been limiting the scope of what they can be.

Acting helped me to process a lot of the things I was going through as I was trying to figure out what life was in this new place and work through a lot of my shit. Our new story is set at a barbecue cookout in present-day North Carolina, rather than a medieval Danish castle.

Being a protector is great, but your ability to protect is not limited to the physical. They had this deep wealth of vulnerability. The script was written. As Fat Ham head to Broadway, Marcel Spears shares what he's learned from playing a Black, gay spin on Hamlet.

The character Juicy, who is based on Hamlet, is a fish out of water as well. Then I started acting more seriously after Hurricane Katrina [in ].

Is Marcel Spears Married : Actor Marcel Spears talks about his Broadway debut and lead role in "Fat Ham," a play that reinvents Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" with a Black, queer and southern

I feel like masculinity, and this idea of what a man is, has always been a mask anyway. I grew up with a religious background, in a place where the idea of what a man was supposed to be was already pre-dictated for me.

All of the men I knew were playing a role of what they thought a man was supposed to be, but they also had all of these other elements. I know I would. I still have this in the back of my mind.

Know Marcel Spears' dating status with long term girlfriend. My parents are both preachers and educators, and I grew up in a very unique city culturally; a melting pot of art, people, food, and all these different things. Actor Marcel Spears joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about his Broadway debut in the highly-anticipated show, "Fat Ham," a modern reimagining of Shakespeare's "Hamlet.".

So I focussed on theater and that proved to be a defining moment for me. Our home was destroyed, and that pushed me and my family out of Louisiana and into Texas. He also describes his relationship with Shakespeare, his own family, and why food is the soul of the South.

It opens in its new home of the American Airlines Theater on April 12, where it becomes the first National Black Theatre production to transfer to Broadway.