WHEN YOU PLAY A character like Darius, the pothead-philosopher of FX’s Atlanta, people want to get you stoned. At the club, in a mall, walking down the street – doesn’t matter. “They assume I smoke,” the 25-year-old actor Lakeith Stanfield says of the show’s fans. “I don’t, but yeah, I get a lot of offers. I’ve had three very large bags of pot just handed to me. My friends like hanging around because they get free weed.”
Now, after a series of high- profile supporting turns in everything from Straight Outta Compton (he played Snoop Dogg) to Get Out, Stanfield is putting his stoner act on hold in two leading roles in August. Crown Heights, which won an audience award at Sundance, finds him playing Colin Warner, a Trinidadian immigrant…
