Freeman plays Red, a man whose been in jail for a long time when Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins arrives after he is sentenced to life for murdering his wife and the man she was having an affair with. Red mentors Andy and their friendship grows. If you are counting, Million Dollar Baby is the third time a Morgan Freeman performance in a Clint Eastwood-directed film is on the list.
It has been one heck of a partnership over the years, to say the least. Million Dollar Baby and its story of redemption is everything viewers could want from a serious and personal movie.
The acting in the movie, by Eastwood, Hilary Swank, And Freeman are as good as you will find in any movie, anywhere, in any time in Hollywood history. At years-old, Morgan Freeman is still going, still playing roles that audiences will appreciate for years to come. He is truly a remarkable actor. Hugh Scott. Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands. Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors.
Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. You will receive a verification email shortly. I never did get around to seeing the movie. But I knew how to play him right away.
I knew when I read it. I just saw him -- the dignity in the character. The only time I ever worried about it was when I was doing the show Off-Broadway, and all these Southerners would come back wiping their eyes and talking about how nostalgic it made them feel. How their grandmother had a chauffeur just like that. I was like "God damn it! I made these people nostalgic for the good ol' days! There were moments of extreme tension on the set. Between the producers and actors, between the director and actors, between everybody.
Just this personality stuff between different groups. Very strange. Let's stop talking about that one. I saw Fight Club and I didn't like it much. It's a great movie, well made, fabulous acting, but it just made me feel so bad.
But David Fincher is an extraordinarily good director. When I was doing press for Deep Impact , reporters would always ask me how it felt to play the first black president, and I'd tell them, "I'm not playing the first black president. I'm playing a president who happens to be black.
What kind of research do you need to play the president? He's a guy. Besides, we all know what presidents are like standing up there in a press conference.
Hell, you don't have to do any research to play a president. I mean, talk about a couple of scuzzy guys. Man, they were turds. But I was intrigued by the mind that would think this up and film it.
Not any better, but still intriguing. And it turns out he's married, has these lovely kids. He's just this big bear of a man. Cuddly, even. It didn't take any persuading to convince me to do the film. When I got nominated for the Oscar [for Street Smart ], it put rocket boosters in my career.
Since childhood, all I wanted to do was make movies. I love the stage, but I wanted to be a movie actor. Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? All of them. I don't know what my favorite film of mine is But I think the most important film I was in was Glory It was my idea to just do The Electric Company for a couple of years and go on. But you get trapped by that money thing. It's golden handcuffs. It gets a lot of people, including soap opera actors and commercial actors.
Then, they don't want to see you in serious work. That was going to be me, having people come up to me saying "My kids love you! I was talking to Bob Hoskins when we were making Unleashed together. We were talking about the joy of doing bad guys. And he confirmed exactly what I was thinking. With bad guys you get to let it all out.
All those dark places in your psyche? You can let 'em go. When you play good guys, it's kind of boring. It's one note. Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor.
Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it. I'm very worried about what's going on in the world at the moment because we have this Napoleonic president; by Napoleonic I mean he's a man who just seems to need to search himself. It doesn't make sense. I don't have any love lost on Saddam Hussein. If he needs to be removed from office, fine. You have to find the right way to do it, but going to war, nah, with the people. To do what. What is the real reason? Because he's harboring weapons of mass destruction?
So it is with North Korea. Why are we acting to acquiesce to this? We do not need the Iraqi oil. We have Kuwait oil. It's the same pool. That's why Kuwait's there. That's why Kuwait was set up.
You think that country could exist there without somebody backing it? We're talking about a piece of Iraq. So, we keep this. That's my noise. I am terribly upset about the whole thing. You know, I was hanging out with Sidney Poitier and we were trying to decide if he or I were the better actor. We decided it was me as I convinced the world I could sing.
Freeman debuted on Broadway in in "Hello, Dolly! Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. The American Indians have this saying. It's a good day to die! You couldn't possibly try to entertain all of the people who seem to be offering you entertainment. Because most of them want some compensation for it.
I do have self-control. Once I realise that I've got to change something I just do it. If you wake up and the snow is knee-deep outside, you are not filled with rage.
It's just something that you've got to cope with. If you're living in a situation it's the only situation that you know, and you've got to deal with it.
I don't have to work. I could stop and never have to worry about paying the rent. I'm working for the joy of doing it. Sometimes, you want to upset an audience so you can engage them. I've done so-called Hollywood films, and I know that it's all about wanting the audience to feel upbeat, give them a happy ending. But they also like complete stories. If your story's complete it doesn't have to have a happy ending. They say there's no fool like an old fool.
But blessings be upon my wife because I think without her, I'd be somebody's fool by now. If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.
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