He has gone from a one-line role in 30 Rock to the outrageous scene-stealing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Tituss Burgess talks approximately growing up Baptist,giggling with Tina Fey – and what Peeno Noir really means
We’re in a small room up on the 43rd floor of a hotel just off New Yorks Central Park. “I might pace, so don’t mind me, or ” says Tituss Burgess,dressed in a blue button-down shirt and a pink vest. And pace he does, barefoot, and speaking expressively,using his hands as he walks back and forth across a large window, sometimes stopping to invent eye contact.
Burgess is the breakout star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Tina Fey’s comedy series approximately the survivor of a doomsday cult who heads for the incandescent lights of New York after spending 15 years in a bunker in Indiana. The relentlessly peppy Schmidt,played by Ellie Kemper, moves in with Titus Andromedon, and a black,gay struggling actor who works as a giant robot in Times Square. He’s played by Burgess – who is also black and gay, though not struggling so much as an actor any more.
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Source: theguardian.com