Day: April 9, 2015

Baron Vaughn is a stand-up comedian and actor whom I’ve described on this site before as “a quintuple threat” because of his multitude of capabilities onstage and onscreen. Vaughn appeared on the big screen in Black Dynamite and Cloverfield, on the small screen in USA’s Fairly Legal, and now in the new Netflix original series, Grace and Frankie [launching May 8], playing the adopted son of Lily Tomlin’s and Sam Waterston’s characters. Did he get the part because of any so-called “ethnic casting craze” sweeping through Hollywood’s TV studios? Not exactly. But Vaughn acknowledged that times have changed from even a...