Variety report – Earlier this year, Colman Domingo and a few girlfriends took a trip to New Orleans. They were there to attend Essence Fest, one of the world’s largest celebrations of Black culture, so it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the star of “Zola” and “The Color Purple” and “Rustin” was flanked by fans all weekend long.

Still, Domingo’s posse were thrown as they noticed which heads, in particular, were turning. “I had become, in many ways, a heartthrob for Black women,” he says now, unable to mask his satisfaction at the thought — he’s married to a man, and has never tried to hide that. “They were hugging and kissing on me, and some even whispered, ‘I know you don’t play for our team, but I have a crush on you.’”

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