Colman Domingo is a man on the wire….
The 55-year-old Emmy-winning Belizean-Guatemalan American actor and activist has joined the cast of Gus Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire after completing his scenes for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man.
After jetting from London on Monday to Los Angeles, Domingo will head to Kentucky next weekend to join Nosferatu’s Bill Skarsgard in Dead Man’s Wire in Louisville.
Austin Kolodney’s original screenplay for Dead Man’s Wire is based on the story of Tony Kirtsis, who one frigid day in February 1977 took Indianapolis mortgage broker Dick Hall hostage in his office. He attached a steel wire, that was hooked to the barrel of a sawed-off, double barrel shotgun, around his captive’s neck.
“This guy was just in dire straits, holding people hostage and speaking to a radio announcer,” says Domingo, who’ll play the broadcaster in question. “That’s the only person he felt like he could communicate with. He’d listened to him every day and I sort of guide him not to kill people.”
Domingo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
