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Jeffrey Wright Latest To Join Denzel Washington In Spike Lee’s ‘High And Low’
Apple/A24's 'High and Low' has welcomed to Jeffrey Wright cast already featuring Denzel Washington and Ilfenesh Hadera.
Hot on the heels of his first Academy Award nomination for his lead role in American Fiction, Jeffrey Wright has been set to join Denzel Washington and Ilfenesh Hadera in Spike Lee’s High and Low, an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller, for Apple and A24. Exec producers include Lee for 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, and Mandalay’s Peter Guber, as well as Juniper Productions’ Matthew Lindner, Chris Brigham, and Katia Washington. In the film from Academy Award-winning writer-director Cord Jefferson, he plays Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a frustrated novelist who writes a new book under a pen name, as a means of critiquing the literary establishment’s penchant for “Black” entertainment relying on tired and offensive tropes, but quickly sees his plan backfire.
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