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Mike Colter Opens Up About 'Luke Cage' in Donald Trump's America

Mike Colter Opens Up About 'Luke Cage' in Donald Trump's America

Mike Colter stars in a feature for Esquire.com, out now.

Here’s what the 41-year-old Luke Cage star had to say…

On his dad: “My dad was born in 1939 on what was a plantation, sort of like a sharecropping situation. And then, when he married my mom, they moved away from that. This was in South Carolina, so this is a weird thing because, for him, he just felt like all the stuff he achieved was more than he expected to achieve.”

On one thing his dad always told him: “Make sure you marry a woman who’s smarter than you are.”

On a Trump reference from Season Two that Colter interprets as a warning of things to come: “It’s calling attention to leadership—misguided leadership, leadership that’s no longer humble, that doesn’t listen to the people. We put in a person who doesn’t care about what people think. It’s become a scary notion that there’s someone in charge who doesn’t care what you think anymore, who doesn’t care about offending his constituents, offending the people that he’s supposed to serve.”

On the stakes being even higher for Luke Cage in Trump’s America: “I think every person who’s not a white male in this country feels a little vulnerable right now.”

For more from Mike, visit Esquire.com.

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Credit: Sacha Maric; Photos: Esquire.com
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