How Mamoudou Athie Of ‘Archive 81’ Learned To Live With No Regrets

Mamoudou Athie. David Schulze Just hours after waking up to the news of Sidney Poitier’s death, Mamoudou Athie, an actor now strolling down the road that the Black cinema legend once paved, hops on Zoom with a pensive smile. “Hey, how’s it going?” he asks, and actually wants an honest answer. Now in year three of the pandemic and the world still in distress, there could be myriad things to complain about that are usually all shielded behind the ubiquitous response of “good.” But on this day, Athie, like so many of the characters he’s played — from the memory… Read Full Article