Bradley Cooper has called him a luminous human being.
George C. Wolfe has praised his joyful, playful, available spirit.
Per Oprah Winfrey, Domingo is the real deal.
EASY RIDERSome 30 years into his professional acting career, Domingo, one of this year’s Met Gala co-chairs, is “firing on all cylinders.” Here, he wears a Harwell Godfrey ring and top-to-toe Valentino.
Here, he wears a Harwell Godfrey ring and top-to-toe Valentino.
For what its worth, this writer can also vouch for Domingo as genuinely lovely company.
(One favorite improbably combined an Afro, cornrows, and straight bangs.)
A GENTLEMAN FRIENDTina Fey calls working with Domingo “a dream”: “He’s generous and playful and prepared.” Wing & Weft gloves. Bailey 1922 hat. Michael German Antiques cane. Bode shoes. Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria jacket, vest, and trousers.
He laughs loudly and often.
(He began his stage career in San Francisco after studying at Temple University in Philadelphia.)
I can make people laugh, make people feel things, and that would be my greatest gift.
WONDERFUL AND RAREWing & Weft gloves. Michael German Antiques cane. Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria suit.
So, too, did Ali help deliver Domingo from journeyman-actor purgatory, appearing in everythingpolice procedurals!
Ava DuVernaysSelma!but never at the top of a call sheet.
I think that was the beginning of people seeing me as a leading man, Domingo says.
CLOSE WORKLouis Vuitton High Jewelry tie pin. Kenneth Nicholson tie. Khiry ring. Omega vintage pocket watch from 1899.
Id been a supportive player for many long years, happily.
A GENTLEMAN FRIENDTina Fey calls working with Domingo a dream: Hes generous and playful and prepared.
Wing & Weft gloves.
Michael German Antiques cane.
Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria jacket, vest, and trousers.
WONDERFUL AND RAREWing & Weft gloves.
JUST IN TIMEOzwald Boateng jacket, vest, and trousers. Magnanni shoes.
Michael German Antiques cane.
Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria suit.
When the opportunity did come, with2023sRustin,Domingo received his first Oscar nomination for best actor.
SMALL WONDERSDomingo wears a Cartier tie pin. Chanel High Jewelry brooch. Tiffany & Co. blue diamond ring. Mateo New York citrine ring. Michael German Antiques cane. Magnanni shoes. Falke socks. Balmain jacket, shirt, and trousers.
CLOSE WORKLouis Vuitton High Jewelry tie pin.
Omega vintage pocket watch from 1899.
Domingo has always appreciated clothes.
Mapping out hisSing Singpress tour, for example, Domingo had a tricky balance to strike.
(One, Clarence Maclin, took home a Gotham Award for his truly great supporting turn.)
Domingo didnt want to take away the shine from the costars, he explains.
I wanted to put the energy on them, not on what I was looking like.
What he didnt anticipate was becoming quite so moved at the sight of Black mannequins.
I always had to look for a vision outside of myself.
JUST IN TIMEOzwald Boateng jacket, vest, and trousers.
As a scene partner, Colman is a dream, Fey tells me via email.
Hes generous and playful and prepared.
SMALL WONDERSDomingo wears a Cartier tie pin.
Chanel High Jewelry brooch.
Tiffany & Co. blue diamond ring.
Mateo New York citrine ring.
Michael German Antiques cane.
Balmain jacket, shirt, and trousers.
Another thing to know about Domingo is that he takes his pleasure as deadly seriously as his work.
For Domingo, these things arent indulgent trifles so much as exercises in common sense: You need love.
You need all these things to do the work youre doing, whatever work that is, he says.
I feel like telling everybodys story.
Who could doubt him?
Produced by Boom Productions.
Set Design: Spencer Vrooman.
Florals by Schentell Nunn at Offerings.
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