“In my 30-year career, I’ve never been the object of anybody’s affection in anything.”
“You have to have a certain kind of confidence.
I had to get that confidencequickso I could tell the story.”
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And Porter believes the story is an important turning point for television, as well.
“We get a lot of airtime as African-American men killing each other.
We get a lot of stories about that,” he says.
And that is really thrilling."
(The conversation starts at 36:18.)
