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- For the 32-year-old New Orleans actor, whose credits also include Dwayne Johnson’s Baywatch, Netflix’s The Get Down and Hugh Jackman’s The Greatest Showman, a key to finding his footing in Hollywood goes back to a community of black actors he met while studying at Yale.
Aug 24, 2021 · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II walks into a downtown Oakland diner carrying a half-dozen shoeboxes stacked to his chin and makes his way — carefully — to a booth. He’s barely gotten settled when a...
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Aug 27, 2021 · Though the film is set in Chicago, Abdul-Mateen was beamed to me from London, where he has spent the last few months shooting a sequel to “Aquaman” (he plays the villainous Black Manta). It ...
Nov 1, 2021 · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Morpheus in the fourth Matrix movie, with an Aquaman sequel to follow. Here, the New Orleans native talks superheroes, social inequality and simulations.
Oct 24, 2021 · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is minding his own business after a workout, walking down Santa Monica Boulevard on the way back to his hotel. As he crosses the road, the palm trees stand motionless, but up ahead there is some commotion. The quiet is perforated by hundreds of people protesting.
Aug 11, 2021 · Now, the actor he was transfixed by was Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, whose biggest credits to date were as the sixth lead in Baz Luhrmann’s short-lived hip-hop origins series The Get Down on...
Aug 25, 2021 · Abdul-Mateen broke onto the acting scene in 2016 starring in Baz Luhrmann's short-lived Netflix series "The Get Down," and the 35-year-old artist has kept the block hot (or rather "ice cold "...
Apr 20, 2023 · In today’s episode, I spoke to Yahya Abdul-Mateen II about how he prepared for his role in Topdog/Underdog, and how that performance evolved over the course of the show’s run. Yahya Abdul...
