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Toure Show

Jeffrey Wright-I Am An Actor

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jeffrey Wright is an amazing actor who stars in one of the best films of the year, American Fiction. In this throwback intv we talk about his philosophies around acting as well as how he tried to make a difference during quarantine times and about around acting. I’ve known Wright a long time and he’s a really deep and fascinating guy onscreen and off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And the What's the best advice about acting that you ever got?

0:17.0

The best advice about acting that I ever got?

0:22.0

Maybe for advice about acting that I ever got. Maybe he's from Sydney Poitier. He said if I could say one thing to you.

0:30.0

irony, that was it. What did that mean? What did that mean?

0:35.1

It meant that you don't always have to play the note. You can play in between the note playing always playing the note.

0:46.0

Eh, you know, we hear it, but do we really feel it?

0:52.0

In those moments that are most tragic, where's the comedy?

0:57.0

You know, in those moments that are most comic,

1:01.0

where's the pathos.

1:03.0

Jeffrey Wright is one of the great character actors of our time,

1:07.0

a true chameleon who can play any role in the world.

1:11.0

He's also a Brooklyn guy who lives around the corner from me, and I run into him on the street. the a project helping Brooklyn hospitals get food from Brooklyn restaurants, thus feeding our courageous

1:25.8

health care warriors and helping some iconic Brooklyn restaurants stay in business.

1:31.7

Jeff is a really interesting guy on screen and off so let's go. It's

1:35.8

Jeffrey Wright on Touray Show. So Jeff you got a really interesting situation going in terms of taking care of people in Brooklyn, health care workers via the

1:54.7

restaurants in our area. You live around the corner from me so I see what you're

1:59.6

doing. Tell the people what you're doing and how they can help you?

2:04.0

Well, the health care workers are taking care of us and the first responders.

2:10.0

So what we're trying to do is really support them by providing them meals so they don't have to be

2:19.2

concerned about where food is coming from because obviously most of the restaurants are closed around here at

2:26.2

Brooklyn Hospital for example you have folks working 15-16-hour shifts many of whom weren't going home.

2:34.4

So a guy named Lenny Singletary there,

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