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Breaking Baz: Danielle Deadwyler Finds “Artistic Love” Working On ‘The Piano Lesson’ & Teases Possibility Of West End Stage Debut
Danielle Deadwyler tells Deadline's Baz Bamigboye about discovering “artistic love” alongside Denzel Washington's sons John David and Malcolm in ‘Piano Lesson.’
Loved ones, drenched with blood, gave their lives to protect that piano, and Berenice is fierce in her determination to keep it in Pittsburgh, where she and her daughter now reside with their uncle, Doaker (Samuel L. Jackson). Malcolm Washington encouraged that sense of “archiving of remembrance” by asking cast members to bring faded photographs of relatives to the set to be woven into the production design. I wrote back in September how he, along with his mother Pauletta Pearson Washington, visited the home of his maternal grandparents in North Carolina, where he discovered old images including a picture of his grandmother aged about 4.
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