Harold Perrineau
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117 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Living Your Legacy · The Untold Journey of Harold Perrineau – From Dancer to TV Icon · 19 May 2025
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When we were about to start, I was looking down and I was like, damn, I like those. I'll get you a pair next time we see each other. Right on. But let's talk about what you want to talk about first.
yeah no it's it's uh it's really easy to summarize i come from uh uh uh these projects in brooklyn called uh cypress hills i do that all the time cypress hills is in east new york and um you know nobody in my neighborhood was an actor or anything like that and uh and it's been a long journey from you know cypress hills to the matrix revolutions and reloaded and all those things and uh
And so, yeah, those things are filled with so many ups and downs and like learning new skills for a long time. I was a dancer. You know, I wrote some songs. So I was in the music part of it for a while. Always wanted to be an actor and had to keep struggling to do that. And so there are lots of twists and turns and pivots and in order to get to a place where you might call success.
Exactly right.
All the time. I wish I could stop thinking about that. Somebody asked me the other day, they said, oh, when did you realize that you made it? I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. I made it. I'm still on the wheel. And it's not like I haven't done well, right? We've done well. But still, there's always another new step to keep you interested.
Yeah, I'm really glad that when I started acting, I didn't know what it took because I would have never done it. Like, I'm really glad that at this point I was just like, I just believe I can. And the truth was, I probably shouldn't. But I did believe it. And so then you just keep going and keep working it out and keep working it out. But there is a real delusion. There's a real like. No, no, no.
No, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I know. I'm weird. I'm weird looking. But I'm still going to be an actor. And then here I am. So it's pretty cool.
I mean, that's wild. That's so many things that are really the same as, like, an actor. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I have to take out insurance in my house because if I have a party and somebody does a thing, they could try to sue you, which has actually happened. Yeah. It's crazy.
And I didn't realize so many things were, until we were talking today, so many things were so similar with entrepreneurs. And I'm glad you're telling me about this because, you know, I just started a bourbon business, which we talked about. And so now I got things to look forward to. The ups and downs of bourbon.
It's really interesting. Every challenge is something new and interesting. You know what I mean? I don't want to be bored. I don't want to just sit through the rest of my life. You know what I mean? And I don't want to just keep doing things that I know how to do because then I'll be bored. And so, yeah, I like to try new stuff and just get out there and see it. That's why success
isn't so straight line. And it's not like, I'm so desperate to be successful. It's just like, I just want to keep learning stuff.
It's really interesting to think back on the whole journey, to think back on the time when you're like, damn, I'm just going to be stuck in the Bronx forever. Because I used to live in the Bronx for a little while. And to actually be here today leading the show on From and stuff like that. And it just makes me really understand the power of belief.
Like, I can only say, like, you just really have to believe, like, I'm fully living proof that that's how you move forward. You have to pivot. You have to do all these things. You have to, and you have to be tree number three. Like, you actually have to go and do that because that keeps inspiring you to, like, not have to do it again. Do you know what I mean?
You'll be tree number three, and the next time, you're gonna be tree number one. And then the next time, you're gonna be the dude. So it really, when I think back about it, man, it's been a long journey. And of course, when we look back, it's been really interesting and cool. But at the time, it was all felt really tricky and like, ugh. So it's going to take forever. But now here we are.
We're like, I'm doing stuff that I love. And there's still hard times. There's still hard times. But I really am doing things that I love. And I couldn't be happier. I've been a really lucky dude.
Right.
Were you the odd one out in England?
Yeah, yeah. Can you talk about that? Yeah, no, when I grew up in Brooklyn, in Cypress Hills, I was just... I was just the cat that wasn't like, you know, I couldn't play any of the sports. I wasn't that cool to hang out with. You know, people used to do the dozens. Yo mama is so stupid. My yo mama jokes were the worst jokes you have ever heard. Like, you know what I mean?
And anything that I could do wasn't really cool. Like, I was really good at math. That wasn't cool. And then I became a dancer and that wasn't so cool. But like a ballet dancer. There's lots of people who can dance, but I was like a ballet dancer.
And so all that stuff was really, really, it was really tricky to see yourself, to see yourself succeeding, even though where the environment where you are, you're completely failing. because it's just not where you belong. And you really just have to go like, you know what? This is not for me, man. I'm not knocking anybody else. It's just, this is not for me. I don't belong here.
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