 Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn`t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan. I`m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion.
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Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything`s cool, and you don`t necessarily want to know what`s in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
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Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It`s seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
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I like New York because you`re kind of forced to smell everybody else`s funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
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I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone`s stage or in front of someone`s camera.
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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can`t do it. They don`t have the chops.
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About Cement (1999) - "That was a film that Adrian Pasdar directed. He`s been a good friend of mine. It`s kind of a cops and criminals film, but it`s hard to decipher who`s who. We shot it guerrilla-style, mostly out in Long Beach, California. My character`s struggling to maintain his balance in an imbalanced, criminal underground."
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For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.
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I`m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I`m two steps away from the other side when I`m out there. It`s more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
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I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.
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The great thing about movies is that they`re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they`re collaborative.
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And it`s one reason why I don`t go to a lot of movies - they`re more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
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Trivia
Plys CIA Agent Felix Leither in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). This makes him only the second actor in the history of the Bond franchise to play the role more than once. David Hedison had previously played the role twice, in Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989).
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Father died when he was a year old and was raised by his mother, who was a lawyer before working at the U.S. Customs Department, and his aunt, a one-time nurse.
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Is friends with Adrian Pasdar.
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Graduated from prestigious St. Albans School for Boys in Washington, DC.
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In 2006, became the first African American to play Felix Leiter in an official James Bond film.
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Studied Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
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Although he alters aspects of his physical appearance for each role, his voice is often unrecognizable from one role to the next. The voices of Belize, with his intelligent, acerbic wit in "Angels in America" (2003), to Peoples Hernandez whose vicious macho confidence is conveyed through his Latino accent in Shaft (2000) to Al Melvin The Manchurian Candidate (2004), whose deep grumblings heartbreakingly represent the state of a destroyed man.
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Won Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels In America: Perestroika," a role he recreated in the television mini-series version, "Angels in America" (2003). In 2002, he was nominated for Tony's Best Actor (Play) Award for "Topdog/Underdog."
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Attended New York University on a theatre scholarship, but dropped out after only two months to act full time.
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His cousin, Brian Wright, was the boy who portrayed young 'Basquiat' at the beginning of that film. The production team needed a child to portray Basquiat who also looked like Jeffrey Wright. Because of this, Jeffrey asked his cousin to do the job.
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Graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1987.
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He received an honorary degree from Amherst College in 2004.
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The only original cast member from the play Angels In America to appear in the film version "Angels in America" (2003).
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Has one son, Elijah.
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