The intolerance of people against other people is growing and growing. And the thing is, this is not anything that's changed. This has been going on for years.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I look at Facebook a fair bit. I see what's posted. I see the travesties and illegalities of what police forces do. And I also see and understand that it is sanctioned by the general public - or we would do something.

I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my performances, show them another world - in the case of '24,' to show them what a politician, black or white, should be. Basically, I wanted to be a service to others.