Ernie Hudson

You know, I always say most actors don't know why they're not working and they don't know why they are working.

Because nobody will tell you the truth in Hollywood.

I should say nobody, but it's rarely where you get the truth.

I think you bring a certain spirit to what you do, even though the characters hopefully are different.

And I believe the characters should serve the story.

So I'm here to tell the story.

And if you don't believe that I am what I'm supposed to be, then if you still focus on me and how I look and all that, then that's a problem.

But I've been asked to do things that I kind of go, you know what, I don't want to do that.

And other people have done those roles and did very well.

And I have nothing bad to say about that.

It's just it wasn't right for me.

to do.

I think there's a reason things didn't unfold in certain ways, because sometimes there's a weightedness.

If it was a great story and the character was something, but unless there's a reason for me to be a certain way, and sometimes I've done things where they wanted me to be less than, to underplay so much that it made somebody else, and I kind of had to fight those.

And then also, a lot of the work is just the work that's offered.

You know, it's not like, you know, there's a pile of scripts on.

There's never been a pile of scripts on my desk that I'm going to.

What do I want to do next?

You know, say whatever comes up and then you you have the choice to say yes or no.

And like I said, there's a few times when I just.