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Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright<\/strong><\/a> may have continued his streak of award-nominated performances with the film American Fiction<\/em>, but Wright still considers himself a student of acting. Speaking with NPR<\/a> about his education in his craft, he recalls an early acting experience with an iconic star that helped him learn about how to approach his roles.<\/p>\n

As a young actor, Wright had the opportunity to work with Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier<\/strong><\/a>, generally regarded as one of the greatest actors in film history. Wright recalls asking Poitier for advice, though he was nervous to speak with the all-time great. Wright remembers:<\/p>\n

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“My first significant role on film was opposite Sidney, which was frightening. I mean, I was, I think 23 maybe. I was 23, 24, just out of college, you know, a couple of years before. I had started acting my junior year of college, so I didn’t really have a lot of experience. And the only reason I got that job was because I had a – I didn’t have – it wasn’t because I had an MFA in theater and acting. It was because I had a political science degree, and they assumed that I knew a little bit about the subject. It was a miniseries called Separate But Equal<\/em> about the Brown v. Board of Education case. I was to play the youngest of the lawyers working with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a man named Bill Coleman, and I had no clue really what I was doing. But, you know, there I was.<\/p>\n

“And I remember just, you know, my first single shot was opposite Sidney Poitier, who was everything. […] I mean, he was the captain of the ship for an actor such as myself, and he was so wonderful, so gracious, so generous and just, like, kind of a naturally elegant man. And he was everything that you would expect he would be. […] And so anyway, at the end of the production, I said, so, you know, Mr. Poitier, you know, any – have any advice for… You know, for me? And he said, yeah, irony. That was it. And I understood exactly what he was saying. I understood exactly.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When asked why he said that he understood what Poitier was saying, Wright responded, “Cause I was playing everything right down the middle of the road. […] He was saying, yeah, paint outside the box, you know? Come at it sideways. […] A performance is more than just the words on the page. So you have to find a way to make them live and to make them compelling. You’re not just reading, though. You’re not just reading what the – you’re interpreting. […] And that’s what he was saying, I think. It was about interpretation and finding – you know, finding the strange humanness in things when you can and finding even, oh, wow, that was a mistake.”<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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