“I couldn’t just go to a whack ass company…who wasn’t gonna put me in the best professional light, and then try to get casted by a professional company,” he said.īanks added: “Other men of colour, we have to take some responsibility and say: ‘Well, how are we presenting ourselves?’ If we don’t wanna be the gangster, … then don’t go to a low production company and just go get breeded and reduce yourself to something you’re not. He is best known for his role as Scotty Wandell on the family drama television series Brothers & Sisters (2006) and D'avin Jaqobis on the space adventure series Killjoys (2015). He continued: “Is it right? No, but that’s how the situation was.”īanks also said that he believed men of colour had to ensure they did not let themselves be cast in roles that portrayed them negatively. Luke Macfarlane is a Canadian-American actor born on January 19th, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada. “So I knew I was going to have to work twice as hard, and was gonna have to portray myself differently, and watch what I was saying, and what I was doing, ten times harder than anyone else.” “I knew I was going to be at a disadvantage being a African-American male,” he said. Banks discussed his views on racism in the porn industry. The 25-year old, who has starred in videos on porn site Men.com, opened up about being raised by a single black mum in America.
