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\nColman Domingo has been directed by his fair share of legends, from Steven Spielberg and Ava DuVernay to George Wolfe and Steven Soderbergh. What he\u2019s gleaned from the greats is the necessity of an overarching sense of trust \u2014 i.e., talented individuals should be encouraged to do the job that they\u2019ve been hired to do.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s what I want to do with my entire cast and crew,\u201d says Domingo, who sat in the director\u2019s chair for his Netflix series, The Four Seasons<\/em>, for the first time in season two. \u201cI want people to make choices and come with ideas and decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn actor by training, Domingo became a director out of circumstance. While pursuing his decades-long theater career, he often would mount his own productions, finding himself in several key positions other than performer. \u201cI had to figure out how to get into the room when I had no access to being in a room, when people wouldn\u2019t allow me to be in the room,\u201d he says. \u201cOtherwise, I wouldn\u2019t be a producer or director.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis onscreen directing credits include episodes of his long-running AMC horror series Fear the Walking Dead <\/em>and an episode in season one of The Four Seasons.<\/em> Now, he is behind the camera for The Four Seasons<\/em>\u2018 second-season premiere episode, \u201cHiking,\u201d which sees the return of the comedy drama\u2019s central gaggle of middle-aged friends: show creator Tina Fey, Will Forte, Marco Calvani, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Domingo. The group is back together for the first time since the season one finale, in which Erika Henningsen\u2019s 30-something Ginny reveals she\u2019s pregnant by Steve Carell\u2019s recently deceased character, Nick, also the soon-to-be ex-husband of Kenney-Silver\u2019s Anne before his demise. (The show is much funnier than this dark synopsis suggests.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe season opener is devoted to the friend group attempting to spread Nick\u2019s ashes in upstate New York. (It\u2019s funny, we swear!) Toward the beginning of the episode, the group sits down to eat at a hole-in-the-wall barbecue spot and the camera swings around the table in a sweeping circular motion, capturing everyone laughing, bonding and sharing a meal. It puts the audience right back in the center of the friend group, reacquainting viewers with the characters they fell in love with in season one.<\/p>\n

\n\tInspired by shots like the intro of Roseanne<\/em> and the dinner scenes in Hannah and Her Sisters<\/em>, Domingo says the staging was purposeful and meant to show \u201cfamily \u2014 and family is what you want to always get back to, no matter what complicated things may happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRunning a set, Domingo emphasized bringing as many people into the creative process as possible, making sure that the day players were introduced to everyone in the morning, and that he was available to all departments. Says Fey, \u201cHe\u2019s wonderful with the crew in their entirety. He really understands, having worked so long as an actor, how much everyone on set is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFey also sees Domingo\u2019s performance background come out when he\u2019s behind the camera, noting, \u201cA lot of times in TV direction, you don\u2019t really get to kind of talk about the acting choices that you\u2019re making, because the days go so quickly. But he\u2019s always, in that way, an actor first, and taking care of making sure everyone feels like they\u2019ve had enough takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDomingo explains, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be the captain of the ship. You\u2019ve got to inspire everyone to bring the best ideas into play. I\u2019m always a \u2018yes, and \u2026\u2019 kind of person. I\u2019m like that as an actor, but also as a director.\u201d He adds, \u201cI don\u2019t like to hear the word \u2018no\u2019 that often, because I feel like I\u2019m very pragmatic when it comes to budgets and to scope and scale and the size of what\u2019s achievable. I also want people to start with that spirit of \u2018yes\u2019 before we\u2019re bogged down with \u2018no\u2019s and what we can\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe Four Seasons<\/em>\u2018 second season kicked off right as Domingo\u2019s other TV series, Euphoria<\/em>, came to an end. Over its three-season run, Domingo\u2019s Ali primarily existed in a diner booth, where he dispensed hard-won wisdom to Zendaya\u2019s Rue, acting as her sponsor and the show\u2019s moral center. In the final two episodes of the HBO drama, Ali takes center stage.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile he has alluded to his past throughout the series, audiences finally see Ali\u2019s previous life as an addict. In flashbacks, he\u2019s shown using, cheating on his wife and having abusive tendencies toward his loved ones. This is revealed as Ali, in the present day, is trying to help Rue navigate her truly untenable position at the center of rival drug lords. Both in the past and in the present, Euphoria<\/em> uproots Ali from the comfortable four walls of the diner.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe wanted to unpack a little bit more about Ali and his survival mechanisms, and really see it put to work,\u201d Colman told THR <\/em>back in April, just as the season started to air. \u201cInstead of him just being philosophical and talking about it, he\u2019s actually going to be more actionable about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter watching Euphoria<\/em>\u2018s series finale, \u201cmore actionable\u201d is an understatement. Ali, who has been the series\u2019 resident mentor, father figure, listening ear, voice of reason and confidant, transforms into what is most analogous to an action hero in a revenge plot. When Rue overdoses via fentanyl-laced pills, Ali tracks down the man behind the operation, the season\u2019s resident big bad, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), challenging him to an old fashioned duel, with a sawed-off shotgun, no less! In the end, it is Domingo\u2019s Ali who brings down the final curtain on Euphoria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs episodes rolled out, HBO refused to confirm that the long-awaited third season would be its last. By the time the finale screened, the network and creator Sam Levinson acknowledged the show\u2019s conclusion.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor his part, Domingo is satisfied. Each season, including two hourlong specials, Levinson asked that his cast treat it as if it were the finale. In the end, says Domingo, \u201cI know that I gave it my all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThis story first appeared in a June stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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