Forest Whitaker

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Forest Whitaker does not look for the spotlight, but it always seems to find him. He was a high school football star in Southern California, a talented young opera singer in college and now he is one of Hollywood’s most respected actors. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the Academy Award winner to talk about his career from The Color of Money to The Butler, and his latest role as a crime boss in the hit show Godfather of Harlem.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:06.2	I always love when I can bring you an interview with an Oscar winner.
0:09.8	Today I have just that for you.
0:11.9	With Forest Whitaker, he won his Academy Award for his incredible performance in the 2006
0:17.3	film The Last King of Scotland in which he played brutal Ugandan dictator Edie Amine.
0:24.7	The man he's had a lot of life and a lot of career before and since that movie, he was
0:29.8	born in Texas.
0:31.0	Movements he was very young to California, South Central LA, moved next door to Carson,
0:35.8	California, where he was a big football star.
0:38.8	High school star, straight A student, got a college scholarship to play football, but eventually
0:45.8	moved on and got a scholarship to sing opera.
0:48.8	Forest Whitaker, football star, opera.
0:50.8	You'll hear him talking our conversation about why he jumped from opera to acting because
0:55.8	he thought that was the better art form for him.
0:58.4	Just a fascinating life and a fascinating career.
1:01.5	His first film was Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
1:04.4	Who could forget that classic?
1:05.6	He's in that.
1:06.6	We talk about his memories of that.
1:08.4	And then just worked with all these incredible directors from Scorsese to Barry Levinson
1:13.0	to Clint Eastwood.
1:14.9	Kind of has worked with everybody.
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