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Morgan Freeman Talks ‘The Gray House,’ Rips Into Black History Month: ‘My History Is American History’


Morgan Freeman talks Monte-Carlo Television Festival opener ‘The Gray House,’ which he exec produced, and Black History Month.

Having exec produced Civil War series “The Gray House” alongside Lori McCreary through Revelations Entertainment, the past is very much on Freeman’s mind. Apart from Rod Lake, Howard Kaplan and Leslie Greif, “The Gray House” is also exec produced by Kevin Costner, who recently brought “Horizon” to Cannes. Inspired by true events, the show tells the story of four Southern women – a socialite from Virginia Elizabeth Van Lew (Daisy Head), her mother (Mary-Louise Parker), a formerly enslaved Black woman Mary Jane Richards (Amethyst Davis) and a prostitute (Hannah James), who start to spy for the Union.

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