Colman Domingo was a bookish, awkward teenager who never went to school dances. At 18, he worked at Barnes & Noble and devoured self-help books in secret, deliberately trying on new ways of walking, speaking, and dressing. The transformation was, as he admits, largely manufactured — and it worked.
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The conversation about high school dances leads to an unexpected disclosure: Colman Domingo was classmates with a young Will Smith in West Philadelphia, one grade below the future Fresh Prince. Smith was already cool, well-liked, and performing publicly with Jazzy Jeff at the Wynn Ballroom. Domingo, by contrast, was bookish, awkward, and invisible — a bona fide nerd who skipped every school dance. He finally attended prom, but his date Terri Hayes was so late getting her dress made that they arrived after all the dancing had ended, cementing his reputation as someone who didn't come into his own until college. The contrast between the two classmates' paths is both funny and poignant. [1] — Colman Domingo "Will Smith was a grade above Colman Domingo at their Philadelphia high school, already performing with Jazzy Jeff at the Wynn Ballroom. Dom…" 21:18
Colman Domingo attended the same Philadelphia high school as Will Smith, who was one grade above him and performed with Jazzy Jeff at the Wynn Ballroom.
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