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Maybe you actually know him, remember him from his lacrosse-playing days at St. Which is to say, don't ask him about his mama. 'Because so much of it stems from this voyeuristic impulse to explore the personality, you know? I really think the work is so much more than the celebration of the individual who acts.' native who was seen this month starring as Martin Luther King Jr. 'I'm really a little bit in some ways embarrassed by some of the attention that's paid to the type of work that I do,' says Wright, a D.C. Gladly.īut the other stuff - his stuff - is none of your damned business. After an interview, he even calls back to talk some more about those matters. He'll gladly talk, and talk, and talk, about the work of the actor, his work, and he leaps from there to expound on notions of race and politics and history and corporate greed and social theory. As he sees it, acting is about testifying, merging the personal with the political, smothering your own ego long enough to let the spirit of your characters fly through you.įinding the truth about those characters obsesses Jeffrey Wright.
