Actor Lakeith Stanfield: 'We All Have Images That We're Attempting To Push'

Actor Lakeith Stanfield is having a moment. He was in Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning horror satire, . He's in the FX show show , where he plays Darius, the stoner sidekick to a rap star who often says pretty outrageous things — like speculating what life would be like if you could use a rat as a cell phone (people in New York City would be doing pretty well, for example). And this summer, Stanfield is in the new movie, , which he calls "an absurdist dark comedy with magical realism that's set in the world of telemarketing. It tells the story of Cassius Green," he says, "who attempts to situate himself in a better position in life by working up the ranks as a telemarketer — which requires that he change himself in crazy ways in order to do it."