A lot of what's going on The Human Stain because of my own memories and experiences.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
During an early read-through for the screen test, you read it once and the director gives you adjustments and you do it again.
Everyone has their challenges.
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
I felt like the build-up was so big that I really needed to deliver-almost more than what might have been expected from me from a first reading.
I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. There is the sense of being between communities.
I rented every Anthony Hopkins film available. And Hopkins met me halfway, like they put a mole on his left temple like the one I have. Hopkins was able to watch home movies of me when I was younger as well.
I tell my reps to send me any parts where race doesn't matter-that's closer to equality in the long run. I hope we get there someday.
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors-or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
I wrote on the idea of doubling and the gender identity construct in Jane Eyre and The Wide Sargasso Sea-which is about identifying yourself; perceiving yourself through the eyes of the dominant white male hierarchy.
I'm pretty much a couch potato.
I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
In the 1940s, race imposed many limitations.
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
When I run into trouble, what group will rally to my defense, come to my aid? The answer, and it's scary, might be no one.
You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.
You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
During his studies at Princeton University he began to act. He was also a member of the acappella group "Princeton Tigertons", where he sang baritone. They recorded at least two albums during their time.
Wentworth was on the cover of the May, 2007 Korean issue of CosmoMen Magazine.
Wentworth had a small role in the short film Room 302 (2001).
Wentworth's father's first name is also Wentworth, and his mother's first name is Roxann.
Wentworth's birthday [June 2nd] is only one day apart from his Prison Break co-star Sarah Wayne Callies's birthday [June 1st].
Wentworth likes to stay at the W Hotel.
Wentworth has a mental disconnect between himself and the individual he sees on covers of magazines because he says that he is "Photo-shopped".
According to the special features on the Prison Break DVD, he auditioned for a role in Superman Returns when the project was still in Brett Ratner's hands.
Wentworth said that if he ever had a son, his middle name would be Wentworth.
Wentworth's favorite novel is Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
Wentworth is allergic to cats and dogs.
Wentworth reportedly likes to eat chocolate cake in between takes on Prison Break.
Wentworth played in "Go Fish", the 20th episode of the 2nd season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. His character, Gage Petronzi, is a member of Sunnydale High swim team, who turns into a monster after inhaling a special mixture his coach made to improve the team performances.
Wentworth's favorite board game is Scrabble.
Wentworth has two younger sisters Gillian and Leigh, who is the youngest. Gillian is a lawyer and Leigh is in law school
Wentworth's mother is a special-ed teacher and his father is a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney.
As of 2006, Wentworth resides in Chicago.
Wentworth looks around the prison for inspiration: "The prison helps a great deal in keeping me grounded in the character."
Wentworth's popularity went up 614% on The Lycos 50, since Prison Break premiered on FOX.
Wentworth was named "TV's Hottest New Face" in Insider Magazine, the week of October 24th-30th, 2005.
Wentworth worked at Borders for two years before getting his break in acting.
Wentworth was born in Oxfordshire, England, but raised in Brooklyn, New York.
As a child one of Wentworth's favorite movies was Time Bandits.
One of Wentworth's favorite movies is Dangerous Liaisons.
Wentworth is named after his father, Wentworth Miller II.
Wentworth made Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List.
Wentworth graduated from Quaker Valley Senior High School in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania in 1990.
Before he became an actor, Wentworth was a lowly production assistant for several tv movies.
The stylist on the Prison Break set uses Oster Turbo 111 Clippers ($179.99) to shave Wentworth and his co-stars' hair.
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