I once saw actor David Morse filming at Jefferson Station, back when it was Market East. 

I mean, yes. His crew might describe what I did as walking obliviously into their scene. 

And then declining to leave until I read the train schedule. 

But I wasn’t actually reading the train schedule. 

I was catching a glimpse of David Morse. Twelve Monkeys? St. Elsewhere? Proof of Life? You – you have to take your David Morse wherever you can find your David Morse. 

And the rest of our hometown celebrities. 

So some of you may have seen the Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo in West Philadelphia, filming his Netflix thriller, The Madness.  

Did I mention he went to Overbrook High School? Temple? Do I need to go on? The man has his bona fides. 

Not only is The Madness set in Pennsylvania, it was filmed in West Philadelphia. 

Domingo told The Philadelphia Inquirer he wants his roles to show Philadelphia as “complex and as salt of the Earth as possible.” 

Well. You don’t get much more salt of the Earth than a cheesesteak.  

Domingo even recruited his niece. She and actress Gabrielle Graham, as Domingo’s daughter, worked to create an authentic Philly girl. 

The Madness debuted on Netflix November 28 to a solid review from The Guardian. What’s inarguable, The Guardian says, are Domingo’s “presence and charisma.”  

“I don’t get to these spaces alone,” Colman Domingo said in the Inquirer piece. “I have Philadelphia with me at all times.” 

So I think – I think – that means the next time he’s nominated for an Oscar, we all get to go. 

I call shotgun. 

You can find The Philadelphia Inquirer piece here. 

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