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“When I first met my wife and before we were married, we worked together. And I’ve seen that there’s a little shift in the way I’ve been cast and that’s all very intentional,” he said. That’s being directed by Ryan Murphy, which is going to be one of the biggest things I’ve ever done in my career.” I’m playing the emotional fulcrum and the kind of solid, strong, straight man role in this musical I’m about to shoot with Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman and James Cordon. “I think that a hundred percent people are starting to see it. I believe that people are starting to view me that way.
“A career is not like a little tiny sailboat, it’s a big aircraft carrier, so it takes a while to kind of start moving in different directions. “I think the ship is starting to turn a little bit,” he said. He also voiced Ducky in Toy Story 4, which has topped $1 billion at the box office. Or is it his voice work? This past summer he voiced one of those menacing hyenas in Disney’s $1.65 billion blockbuster The Lion King. And sometimes he plays it straight, as he does as playwright Jerry Jones in Netflix’s much-lauded Dolemite Is My Name. Sometimes he’s the funny guy as in Playing With Fire, which stars former wrestler John Cena and opens on Friday. 30, 2017.īut perhaps - just perhaps - they’re also taken by the growth in Key’s visibility in Hollywood? Because four years after Key & Peele went off the air, he’s everywhere. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (left) and Keegan-Michael Key (right) pose for a picture at the opening of NFL Experience Times Square in New York on Nov.
Yes, for lack of a better way of putting it, yes, they do.
And they all have really wonderful, rich senses of huge potential. “So there’s this really wonderful kind of synergy, this imaginistic - Made up that word! - this imaginistic synergy that I get to have with the players. “It is surreal to have these young men know me … my work is the closest I can get to emulate being an athlete,” Key said. That sketch has nearly 53 million views on YouTube alone and one of the characters, Hingle McCringleberry, had made numerous “live” appearances. See, about seven years ago Key - along with his then-comedic partner Jordan Peele - created what’s become a timeless funny take on the sometimes Afrocentric and other times simply creative names that some black football players may have for their Key & Peele show on Comedy Central. So the idea that he garners fanboy love from NFL stars - including Von Miller and Michael Bennett - well, it tickles him. Key says he dreamed his whole entire life of being Billy Sims or Lynn Swann, but never got a chance to play football. The kind of laugh that makes you want to join in because whatever it is he finds so funny, surely you will, too.
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