Acting pursued Louis Gossett Jr. — not the other way around. The New York City native had already begun performing on Broadway when he finished high school in the early 1950s and headed to NYU on a scholarship, but he had hoop dreams.
“I was at rookie training for the [New York] Knicks when I got a call from [playwright] Lorraine Hansberry to be a part of A Raisin in the Sun,” Gossett, 87, says of the original 1959 Broadway production of her legendary play, in which he starred opposite Sidney Poitier.
“They said the part comes with a $700 per diem, more money than most professional athletes had in the bank at the time. I put the basketball down, and the rest is history.”
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