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‘American Fiction’ Star Jeffrey Wright On The Birth Of His Acting Dream, Learning Respect On Set From Harrison Ford And His Take On A Black Bond
Jeffrey Wright, star of Cord Jefferson’s provocative debut feature American Fiction, says he felt a personal affinity with his character Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in the film, in part because …
Monk is an author and a professor of English literature who discovers he may have to lower his standards to attain some kind of glory in the phony world of publishing. DEADLINE: At festival screenings people have talked about that deeply caring side of your character and how they connected to Monk in a visceral way. The things that we did talk about a lot were ensuring that the story wasn’t a celebration of the ‘Talented Tenth’, the kind of the Black bourgeois in America — we didn’t want it to be classist in that way.
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