Romany Malco
Romany Malco
Romany Romanic Malco, Jr.is an American actor and music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image Award, MTV Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. Malco portrayed Conrad Shepard on the Showtime series Weeds. He most recently played George St. Cloud on the ABC primetime one-hour drama No Ordinary Family...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 November 1968
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.
I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.
My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."
The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.
Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.
It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.
For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.
It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.
I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.
I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.
I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.
I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.