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'Fear the Walking Dead' actor Colman Domingo says the projects he chose have left him fundamentally altered as a person

The opportunity to appear in a work by Baldwin — one of the 20th Century’s most influential African American novelists — is something Domingo had been hoping would come his way

By Scott Huver

If Colman Domingo needed a potent antidote to the violent, bleak and deadly world of 'Fear the Walking Dead,' he may have found the perfect oasis. While author James Baldwin’s 1974 renowned novel 'If Beale Street Could Talk' is rife with social conflict and interpersonal angst, the forthcoming film adaptation — in which Domingo appears in a key supporting role — a more lyrical, sensitive and grounded environment than Robert Kirkman’s post-apocalyptic zombie-filled landscape, particularly in the contemplative hands of filmmaker Barry Jenkins, best known for the Academy Award-winning film 'Moonlight.'

The opportunity to appear in a work by Baldwin — one of the 20th Century’s most prominent and influential African American novelists, essayists and social critics — is something Domingo, a longtime aficionado of the writers’ works, had been hoping would one day come his way.