Don Johnson thinks of himself as a bag. Not an old bag, even at 74, but a bag nonetheless. He’s explaining his approach to acting, in which he empties himself out of the container that is his body and stuffs the character in. There’s separation but always at least some overlap.
Perhaps that’s why, in the late 1980s, it was hard to distinguish Johnson from his Miami Vice alter ego, Sonny Crockett, a gruff, perennially stubbled police detective who lived on a sailboat…

