"The questions of who I am, and what I want the rest of my life to look like, are ones I’ve been wrestling with in this midlife moment," says the star.

Actor André Holland reveals what draws him to characters who are in search of an identity… and making poetry out of a challenging monologue.

Despite splitting the difference between stage and screen in dazzling ways, Duke Johnson’s The Actor is all shine and no substance. Starring André Holland as an amnesiac stage performer piecing together his past, the part-thriller, part-love story fails to alchemize its many flourishes, leaving only a dull, hollow core.

Duke Johnson’s film stars the performer as a traveling thespian who suffers memory loss after an attack and finds himself trapped in a small Ohio town.