Wendell Pierce

Oh, he was so adamantly against it.

He was like, let your mama take you to all that stuff.

I'm not going to do it.

But he stuck to his guns.

His principle was, you do what you want to do, but give 100%.

And so he was adamantly against it.

But then my brother made me remember that.

that my father was a photographer.

And he said, I want daddy's pictures.

If anything ever happens, I want daddy's pictures.

I said, what pictures?

And he showed me these pictures from an art exhibit my father had done when he had studied as a photographer.

And he went to New York.

I knew he had gone to New York to study photography because that was a trade back in the day.

We didn't have our phones and Instamatic cameras.

You went to a photography studio and got your pictures taken.

So when the Instamatic camera came out, actually an entire industry went away.

Because a photographer was like a grocer or a dry cleaner, you know?

The family got together, they went to the photography studio and they took pictures.

And that's what he was expecting to do.