Keith David Was Emotional On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

TV & Film

Jun 6

Actor Keith David is giving his speech after receiving his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Image Source: images.complex.com — Image Source: images.complex.com

Since his childhood, Keith David had a dream to be an actor and perform before an audience. Over his decades-long career, Keith David performed for audiences in film and television as a protector, an anti-hero, a commander, a president, and a Shadow Man, just to name a few. Trained as a Shakespearean actor, David’s stage presence not only commands attention, but his presence comes from the understanding of what it means to use the tools given to make any room yours. When David received the news he would be receiving his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Variety reported David as “still digesting” the news and stated how the inclusion of his name on the Walk of Fame is him being part of the “great actors” David “respects”, and “learns from”.

Speaking on his illustrious and critically acclaimed career, David recalled receiving his “equity card” through understudying the late Raúl Juliá in “Othello” as his first job out of school during the summer. Since then, he was taught to regard the rehearsal stage as a “sacred space” and once on stage, “it becomes about the work.” David’s love of “the work” and thrilling his audience gave him the ability to extend his acting range from comedy to horror to voice acting to dramatic television. In his emotional speech about his career, David said he has no plans to stop and hopes to portray roles on the big screen, such as Frederick Douglass and Paul Robeson. According to David himself, “I’m 47 years into this, and I still get to do it…. Ask me, I might say yes!” His audience will be eager to see what he says yes to next.