![]() "Two actors having a spat on set - which happens all the time - and unfortunately in this media age that we live in now, that gets blown up," he says. ![]() In Blackbird, he plays Randy's loving father.Īll the drama around what Washington might have said on the Grey's Anatomy set did not concern Polk. That's because seven years ago, Washington was accused of using an anti-gay slur in an argument on the set of the show Grey's Anatomy. Coming from me, I know it's going to raise eyebrows.' " Washington recalls: "I said, 'So, sorry I said have to be part of this - this is an amazing story. When Polk finally adapted Blackbird, he sent the script to actor Isaiah Washington. That perspective informs everything Polk's made for the past 20 years, including his groundbreaking cable series Noah's Arc. "I'd never read anything that was told from a gay black perspective." The book was Blackbird by Larry Duplechan. ![]() "I could see illustrated brown skin on the spine." "And there was one book on the shelf I could tell had an illustration of a black person on the cover," he recalls.
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