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Courtney B. Vance Recalls Rehearsing Heartbreaking ‘Fences’ Scene With James Earl Jones for the Tony Awards: ‘The Tears and Snot Flowed’
Courtney B. Vance remembers his "Fences" father James Earl Jones, their iconic Tony Awards performance and the cast becoming a family.
In the middle of the run, Lloyd gave me the task to pick two physical gestures of James Earl’s and put them into my performance. I knew exactly what they were: at the point that he gestured with his hand when telling my character, “Now, go cut those boards,” and when he gave one pound to his chest while delivering dialogue. Moses Gunn, Cicely Tyson and James in “The Blacks” was a play that changed Broadway as much as “Fences” did, allowing African American performers to have careers.
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