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Breaking Baz: Malcolm Washington Summons Ghosts From His Mother’s Family To Aid Him Shooting ‘The Piano Lesson’ — Telluride Film Festival


Malcolm Washington Works With His Family’s Ghosts For ‘The Piano Lesson’

Set in post-Depression era Pittsburgh, the haunting movie is about two siblings, Berniece and her younger, sharecropper brother Boy Willie, played respectively by Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington. “So my mom grew up in this really challenging kind of racial climate, but she was playing classic music, and that brought her all these opportunities,” he says noting his mother’s extensive travels, which eventually took her to New York and Juilliard: “She lived this life that wasn’t available to a lot of her peers. His father, the Oscar-winning actor and film artist Denzel Washington has pledged to bring all ten of Wilson’s American Century Cycle of plays, which chart different aspects of the Black experience in America, to the screen.

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