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He acts, sings, dances " and calls out racial profiling: why everybody's talking about Layton Williams by Lanre Bakare

As a child, he was chosen from 4,000 hopefuls to play Billy Elliot on stage. Now he's starring in a musical about a young drag queen and using his profile to challenge homophobia'I've not been in here before," says Layton Williams as he steps into an upstairs bar at the Apollo theatre in the London's West End, where he is about to star in the hit musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie. Our interview is ready to star…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM on January 24, 2019

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