Glover also discussed wanting the role of Lando years before getting it, though his agent didn't think it was possible then:“I realized that connection was too powerful for a person like me. I just would get hurt," he said before revealing what he uses the internet for now. “I try and find subcultures. I try and find communities. I talk to people as a regular person. It’s the only place you can be anonymous.”
He talked about why it's important to make a show like Atlanta, which largely focuses on the black American experience:“That was exactly what I needed to hear because I’m the person who’s not supposed to make it, so much so that I don’t think people recognize where I came from and what I’ve done. At a certain point, it does look easy. I do sometimes look like a Mary Sue. I was like, ‘Oh, okay, cool.’ I studied, I watched the movies a lot, and I killed it, because I was ready.”
Read the rest of the interview over at Esquire.Follow Lawrence Burney on Twitter.Black people do not have the narrative over their story. It’s always been written by somebody else,” he said. “I also think it’s like we have PTSD. There’s a lot of things that have happened to us that we don’t completely understand and we’re not getting help to understand. That’s why information is so powerful and necessary. If you understand, then you don’t let it happen again.