Miller: This Is A Good Place For Me

For Omar Miller (Walter Simmons), becoming one of CSI: Miami‘s newest faces was an easy choice.

Miller joined Miami at the beginning of the current season, and he feels it was the right choice for his career. “When Jerry Bruckheimer gives you a ring, it’s kind of a no-brainer,” the actor joked to USA Weekend. “Let’s be honest about it, I’m not Will Smith or anything. At the same time, I do take a lot of concern, interest and detail in the things that I do in my career. That’s why I’m able to be proud about what I’ve done to this point. I really had to take a close look at what it was I would be doing, and what it was potentially that I would be sacrificing as far as being out of availability for the film world. I felt like this is a good place for me right now.”

The actor also has a film role in Blood Done Sign My Name, which is now in theatres. The movie is about racial injustice in a small North Carolina town during the 1970s. Miller doesn’t have a large role in the film, but he feels his part is important nonetheless. “I have what I like to call a very poignant role,” he said. “I come in, I do my job and I keep my moving, but I add to the story, and hopefully my presence will be felt in the film. It’s very important that people don’t go to the movies or watch TV and feel like they’re watching an actor. I want people to feel like this is real, and for that, I want to bring the reality. That’s what I feel like I can do.”

February is Black History Month in the United States, which means a lot to Miller. “It is of the utmost importance to me,” the actor said. “Racism and this ugliness have gotten so deeply embedded into the American culture that it’s seeped into our subconscious and our subculture. It’s almost like a demon that needs to be exorcised, in my opinion. The more light we can shed on this, let’s get it out and let’s move forward because it’s going to need to die out physically. And the more people who grow up in diverse areas and kids who grow up playing with other kids, it doesn’t matter what color they are, that’s how we eliminate this ignorance of racism. That’s all it is—a bunch of confusion and ignorance. We’re all the same people.”