I heard Mahershala Ali‘s next Oscar acceptance speech today. It happened during a Q&A for “Green Book” at Bice in midtown Manhattan after the film screened next door.
“The film provides some perspective on things we are experiencing now. I think we need to have these films,” the “Moonlight” winner began. “We need to have art. We need to have ‘edu-tainment.’ Things have to exist that do some of the fighting for us.” On his portrayal of Don Shirley — the musician driven around the South in 1961 by Viggo Mortensen‘s character Tony Vallelonga — he continued, “It was a real blessing to step into the shoes of a man who was that dynamic and that complicated. I’d never seen that man on screen before — of any color. It made me nervous, but I wanted to step toward it.”
It’s rare that applause breaks out at one of...
“The film provides some perspective on things we are experiencing now. I think we need to have these films,” the “Moonlight” winner began. “We need to have art. We need to have ‘edu-tainment.’ Things have to exist that do some of the fighting for us.” On his portrayal of Don Shirley — the musician driven around the South in 1961 by Viggo Mortensen‘s character Tony Vallelonga — he continued, “It was a real blessing to step into the shoes of a man who was that dynamic and that complicated. I’d never seen that man on screen before — of any color. It made me nervous, but I wanted to step toward it.”
It’s rare that applause breaks out at one of...
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