You know, have to look over and be careful. They came back and handcuffed me to a tree for three hours. "'Get out.' Now I'm on the ground in front of my own car. "After about 25 minutes, 'Behave yourself and turn that music down.' Get back in the car and go another ten feet." A siren! He was stopped again. And I had never had that done to me, even though I'd been in the South. "So, I turned it off and I looked at the cops and they said, 'Who are you?' And I said, 'Louis Gossett, I'm here to do –' 'Just shut up.' Took me outta the car and put me on a curb. Gossett was driving down the road listening to the radio, when he was stopped by police. "Oh, Sam Cooke was doing the thing within five minutes!" Miller said, "So, then your agent gets you a role on television and you fly out to L.A. It's in my bloodstream."Īnd soon he set his sights on Hollywood – but it wasn't open arms that awaited him. Showed me what was good and what was bad. Gosett said, "I'm fortunate to have worked with Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands, Ruby Dee. And by 23 he was already working with legends, as an original cast member in "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's tale of a black family on the south side of Chicago. But tell your mother to take you down there Sunday. He had dreams of being a doctor or athlete, but a high school English teacher saw something else in the class president: "He used to say, 'Louis, I see they're looking for a young man to play a lead in a Broadway show. "And if my parents didn't get home in time, I had a choice: I could have gefilte fish, I could have lasagna, have menudo, corned beef and cabbage – depends on who was home." "As long as I'm here, there is a job to do for the benefit of us all, for what it's worth," he said.īorn in 1936, Gossett grew up in the melting pot of Coney Island, New York, surrounded by friends and families who cared for one another, especially around dinnertime. Miller asked, "I take it retiring isn't something you're considering?"
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