Colman Domingo has starred in Sabrina Carpenter’s campy new ‘Tears’ music video – check it out below.
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The pop singer’s seventh studio album ‘Man’s Best Friend‘ arrived today (August 29), having so far been previewed by the “song of the summer”, ‘Manchild‘. The lyrics to that track saw Carpenter unapologetically call out inept men, and the music video saw her hitchhike across the US at sunset, casting them aside one by one.
The Bardia Zeinali-directed visual for ‘Tears’ has followed suit, seemingly dialling up her disdain for useless men struggling with the bare minimum – “I get wet at the thought of you/Being a responsible guy/Treating me like you’re supposed to do/Tears run down my thighs” and – and ultimately killing one off at the end.
“It’s a thing, someone has to die in every video,” she explains, before stabbing him with a stiletto. Though the Carpenter video kill count is now expected from audiences, the addition of Euphoria star Domingo was not.
“About to break the internet. Tears,” he shared on social media hours before it dropped. “Protect all the Dolls.” In the Rocky Horror inspired video, Carpenter finds herself in the middle of the woods after a car crash, and is met with Domingo, in Dr. Frank-N-Furter-esque drag, and the two move through the house.
Much like Susan Saradon’s Janet, her outfit quickly turns into lingerie, and Carpenter spins on a pole in a corn field, has a glittery dance break with Domingo, and eventually finds herself back outside, with the guy she thought died in the car crash – and gets the job done.
When sharing the video early today, she told fans it starred the “truly incomparable, magnetic, and fantastic Colman Domingo”, who himself joked on social media: “Didn’t see that coming did ya?”.
Didn’t see that coming did ya? 😂 Thank you Sabs for inviting me to truly play. https://t.co/VcD4cvRVba
— Colman Domingo (@colmandomingo) August 29, 2025
The actor spoke to NME earlier this year about his back to back Oscar nominations, first in 2024 for his empathetic performance in Rustin, a biopic of queer civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
“That sort of catapulted me to leading man status,” Domingo told us. He also became, after Ian McKellen in 1998’s Gods And Monsters, only the second out gay man to be nominated for playing a gay character.
Earlier this year, he was once again up for Best Actor for his part in Sing Sing, a prison drama he helped to shape. “From start to finish, I got to put my fingerprints on every frame,” said.
As far as future projects, he said: “Everything I have, it’s because I haven’t put any limitations on myself,” he says. “I didn’t know where this career would go, to be honest, but I’m really happy with where it is.”
As for other Sabrina Carpenter news, her recent headline slot at BST Hyde Park was given a glowing five-star review from NME, and praised as one that “effortlessly reinforces her command over modern pop”.
“Fireworks shoot out of the stage as Carpenter sings the biggest song of her career, which is only a year old, but somehow feels like the only song ever made,” the review read, referring to ‘Espresso’. “It’s catapulted the singer from an artist orbiting the pop girl league tables to one of its reigning champs, but her command of this space is a testament to the years of graft it took to get there. All she needed was time.”
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