Whitaker was determined to find the man behind the headlines.
We must be seduced by Amin's charm and personality, before we, too, wake up and smell the rotting corpses. You need an actor who, even when he is playing Jodie Foster's tormentor in Panic Room (2002), or a hit man in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), is able to command the audience's sympathy. The question is: how far will people allow themselves to be seduced? Will they allow themselves to be destroyed, if not physically then spiritually? People like Amin and Hitler do not succeed alone, but with society's complicity. Evil is always more disturbing when it has a human face, because it reveals our kinship with the supposed other. The Last King of Scotland does for Amin what the movies Max (2002) and Downfall (2004) did for Adolf Hitler: take a figure whose dimensions have been reduced almost to the point of demonic caricature, and expand their humanity. I thought, 'Am I safe in here? He doesn't seem like he's acting.' I cast him right there, on the spot." "At one point," Macdonald recalled about the audition, "I actually got uncomfortable. Macdonald saw dozens of actors for the role, and initially had doubts about Whitaker, because "he's known for being sweet, gentle and internal".
He's already won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Idi Amin in Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Giles Foden's The Last King of Scotland - and he's up for a matching Oscar too. ( Return to the corrected sentence.Forest Whitaker towers over me, his burly, 6ft 2in (188cm) frame a reminder that before he became an actor he had a college football scholarship.ĭespite his bear-like physique, Whitaker, 45, radiates calm his voice is soft and soothing.
31, 2007: The article originally and incorrectly identified a hijacked Air France airliner as an El Al airliner. There are a lot of factions out there-making for mathematical possibilities too weird to contemplate. So, if you need help with this year’s office pool, don’t call us. Another group seems inclined to go only so far for Scorsese-and especially for this movie, which seems to have a number of endings. Others point out that a contingent of academy voters hates Babel and dreads nothing more than seeing it become this year’s Crash. Some think that since only Babel and The Departed were nominated in the influential editing category, the race comes down to those two. And the academy recognized all three of the three amigos-Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel, Guillermo del Toro (for best foreign-language nominee Pan’s Labyrinth), and Alfonso Cuarón for writing and editing Children of Men.Īs the dust settles, little light has been shed on the eventual best picture winner. African or African-American actors got five of 20 nominations (Forest Whitaker, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Jennifer Hudson, and Djimon Hounsou). The academy showed a healthy respect for diversity.
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