Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Parts One: Millennium Approaches, Part Two: Perestroika

When we left off, we were talking about his work in Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America.

Wright performed in the play for a year and a half, starting in 1993. When it was adapted into the 2003 HBO series, he reprised his role as Belize, the flamboyantly gay nurse.

I just finished watching this said the superb Mini series from back in the day called angels in America about the other crisis And I think this I might write even write a book about at some point because I think people have forgotten how dark it was And it was a joke because it was happening to them and like ha ha and it was it's really if you look back It was extremely disturbing how this population was treated and and like I just also plotted I heard conspiracy theory about the MMR vaccine 1980 They they established and they distribute a mass distribution of the MMR vaccine some new vaccine And it was this is the conspiracy theories that it was tainted with HIV, right? A lot of people got it most people were able to fight it off It was the people doing poppers and parting till 5 a.m. They got really sick and they're like gay It's gay and it's like no it's cuz their body is where we can we don't we don't need that conspiracy because we know that Bayer had tainted Hemophilia medication. That's that's historically. Yeah fact well. Have you heard of Celia Farber?

Oh, honey, I've locked you up in your dressing room and I'm taking the stage. I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand this is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. This is reality. This is reality. I have sex with men, but unlike nearly every other man whom this is true, I bring the guys I'm screwing to the White House and President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand because I am defined entirely by who I am. Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who fucks around with guys. So no, Henry, no. AIDS is what homosexuals have. I have liver cancer.

So what happened was Tony Kushner...And if you don't know Tony Kushner, Tony Kushner is the Pulitzer winning anyone winning? I mean, he's one. He's huge. He wrote agent America Abraham, I mean Lincoln a recovery.

So he literally just went to my website...Tony Kushner went to my website was like hey be in my show. Will you? Be Belize which is like a Lee. It's incredible role.

It's only where we make oh, I actually really love things. I'm really familiar with angels Who do you play it? I'm like the only black person in this office.

It's a it's interesting because I hadn't I actually realized I hadn't seen it because I didn't see the recent Broadway version with Andrew Garfield.

You are not Angels in America and JK Rowling, you are not Tony Kushner.

Broadway, broad, a two-part play like your fucking Angels in America, you are not Angels in America, and J.K. Rowling, you are not Tony Kushner.