The actors discuss the Ossie Davis play’s fierce truthtelling—and offer a glimpse inside their star-studded opening night.
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Director Kenny Leon was proud, urgent, and emotional in his curtain call speech: “I watched so many African American artists walk the red carpet today—Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson—and I thought, artists have been fighting for this for years. Woodie King Jr. is here! We’ve been fighting, fighting, fighting, and we just want to love. Maybe the answers won’t come from the political community or the spiritual community, but maybe it’ll come from artists.
The vibe in Odom’s sumptuously appointed dressing room was more blissed-out-speakeasy than you’d expect from an actor rearing to take the stage in a razor-sharp satire of American racist capitalism; music was playing, and a bottle of Suntory Roku sat atop a glistening bar cart. But with Young seated comfortably beneath a painting by Leonard Maiden,, it seemed fitting that the stars should be at ease—both in their preparation and, now, their success.
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