Men’s Health links up with This is Us star Sterling K. Brown for its latest cover story. Beau Grealy photographs Brown for the magazine’s November 2019 issue. Meanwhile, Ted Stafford looks after the feature’s sporty styling. Brown talks to the magazine about the actors he looked up to early in his career. There’s a wider breadth of who you can be onstage than was allowed on the camera,
says Brown. Denzel Washington, Sam Jackson, Delroy Lindo, Don Cheadle—all these dudes come from theater, and they weren’t jacked-up, crazy-looking dudes.
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Discussing his passion for his career, Brown says, I want to hopefully give you some sense of inspiration, either to make the world a better place or for you to be a better person.
The 43-year-old actor continues, And so when I step into a theater, when I step on set, it is my sanctuary. It’s me and it’s not me. I’m a vessel for a story to be told, for a perspective to be illuminated.
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