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Is this 24-year-old worried about playing a screen legend? Not so much
Actor Donné Ngabo, 24, portrays Sidney Poitier in the stage play Retrograde, which imagines a pivotal 1950s encounter between the struggling young actor, his screenwriter friend, and a manipulative studio lawyer demanding he name names during the McCarthy era. Ngabo focuses on conveying Poitier's dignity and vulnerability rather than impersonating him, emphasizing how maintaining integrity became his form of protest.
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