![]() ![]() ![]() Obviously it wasn’t like that when I started, if you got a role at all, which is why I thought I’d just be doing theater the rest of my life. “I’ve been in the game whatever it is, 35, 40 years. ![]() The A-lister also discussed how the parts available for bBlack men in Hollywood have changed since he entered the business. That’s a cultural difference, not just color difference.” I know, you know, we all know what it is when a hot comb hits your head on a Sunday morning, what it smells like. Martin Scorsese probably could have done a good job with Schindler’s List. Martin Scorsese did Goodfellas, right? Steven Spielberg could direct Goodfellas. “It’s not color, it’s culture,” Washington said. During a Town Hall with the cast, SiriusXM Urban View’s Karen Hunter asked why this was so important to the late playwright. More than two decades later, Denzel Washington is fulfilling that wish, directing and starring in the film about an African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh. In a 1990 essay, August Wilson made it clear he’d only allow a Black director to helm an on-screen adaptation of his Tony-winning Fences. ![]()
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