he thought about quitting acting. He had been hustling for a decade in Los Angeles by then, nabbing small TV spots here and there. He loathed the unpredictability, and the thought of another decade of not knowing whether he would ever be able to get a mortgage or pay down his student loans.
“The lightbulb went on in the middle of him talking,” says Odom, now 39, talking over Zoom from his home in L.A. After that conversation, Odom retook Acting 101 classes with Robinson. And what followed has been a steady climb to the top, and a moment that has never stopped being aalongside Don Cheadle and nabbed a role in the beloved musical seriesHis biggest break came in 2015, when he joined the off-Broadway cast of a buzzy musical called, playing the role of Aaron Burr.
“You try to mimic first,” he explains. “ ‘How close can I sound to these people?’ They’re teaching you everything: technical aspects, emotional contours of the song.” “What we’re all asking ourselves backstage is, ‘What is our responsibility to the movement and the moment happening outside these doors?’ ” Odom says. “We didn’t always agree on the best way to do that. Lin had very different ideas from me from time to time. Daveed [Diggs] felt a different way than Chris [Jackson] from time to time. We would have those discussions backstage.
He’s trying to focus on the positive. “I think there’s something undeniable about the fact that the world is slow enough and quiet enough right now for a movie liketo get seen,” he says. “We’re able to have certain conversations in our lives that maybe are mirrored with the conversation that these four men are having onscreen.”. “We were on a Zoom a week ago, and Regina kind of spontaneously broke down a bit,” Odom says.
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