Wendell Pierce

And I tell her, listen, go into the bathroom, you know, and be quiet.

There may be a law against this.

Right?

And in our production, I'm having an affair with a white woman.

And it's 1937, I think it was.

And we're in this hotel and she is, you know, scantily clothed and there's a knocking on the door.

And I'm thinking it's someone that can expose our infidelity.

And I say, you know, there may be a law against this.

And I'm thinking of the laws that were of the time.

that if uh the literal laws of you know you could not marry and you could not be together in an interracial relationship and then there was the time that so many black men were lynched because they were caught with a white woman it's one of the most dangerous things that can ever happen uh it was the time of the scottsboro boys it was the time of uh you know uh

of, of, of danger.

And, um, and actually the producer thought we put it in there.

Right.

And I said, no, that's in the play because actually the law at the time was no unmarried couple could be in a hotel together.

And that's the law that they were thinking of that in Boston at this time, you know, it was, you're not supposed to be in a hotel together unless you're married, you know,

There may be a law against this.

And that simple line rang out like something you had never heard before.

It felt different.

Thank you.

Thank you.