“I think there has just been a fire lit under me ever since the opportunity to be a performer first arrived in front of me,” he says. “And I haven’t looked back. I have to take advantage of every opportunity I get so that I can continue to do this work. So I’m always going to throw everything at it. My ambition hasn’t waned.” He has always understood that the line between having and not having is tenuous.as beforeVest in cotton from the Spring/Summer 2003 collection by HELMUT LANG from ARTIFACT.
“You’re playing with your psyche, as an actor. That’s something that is sensitive. And if you’re a performer, chances are you’re sensitive, like me. So you have to be careful about some of the places you go. I learnt that the hard way” – LaKeith Stanfield LaKeith Stanfield is “Showing Hollywood How to be Weird”. Or is “the Greatest Weird Actor of Our Generation”. LaKeith Stanfield is “Reframing” Black masculinity, “Redefining” Black masculinity, “Revolutionising” Black masculinity – or anyway, he’s doing something that involves Blackness, weirdness, masculinity and Hollywood.