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 Morgan Freeman
Interview By: Michael Dance Morgan Freeman needs no introduction. The Oscar-winning star of classics like The Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy is well-known and beloved by anyone who's ever watched one of his movies. He's everyone's grandfather, prone to monologues full of wisdom and thoughtful voice-over narrations (often in movies he doesn't even appear in). Freeman is also incredibly polite, even while tacitly admitting he'd rather go rest than talk to you: "How are we all today? I'm marvellous, simply marvellous. The day is almost over." He's been doing the press rounds all day for his new movie, Feast of Love, in which he plays a character who is, you guessed it, both wise and the narrator. He's asked how much wisdom he considers himself to have. "I have no such thing. You have to keep utmost in your mind that it's written down somewhere, and I'm speaking it back. None of this is spontaneous. Not a comma comes out of me. It's all scripted. That I can pretend well enough for you to believe it is either my curse or my blessing." He admits to feeling a bit conflicted about the persona he has created for himself, which has included, literally, playing God. Twice. "It's hard to walk through life with people saying, 'Oh, here comes God.' You're confusing the actor with the part again. There's a syndrome, which they used to call the Othello Syndrome, where you walk off the stage with the character still in place. Not me. Never do that, never have, and still don't." In fact, he's troubled by actors who seem to carry more weight because of their perceived intelligence thanks to their roles. "That's another one of the problems that we have. I'm not anything, I'm -- okay, I will cop to being fairly well-read. Meaning that I can generally hold a decent conversation on a wide variety of subjects. Does this make me wise? It only makes me well-read as an actor should be -- having read most of the classics, you know, as a necessity. But it has nothing to do with anything else, I mean when I open my mouth I'm no more to be listened to than you." He laughs, realizing he's saying that while being interviewed. "Wrong analogy." As for the narration thing -- we've previously heard him do a voice-over in Shawshank, Million Dollar Baby, March of the Penguins, War of the Worlds, and others -- he seems finally inclined just to accept it. When someone suggests that maybe the temptation is too great for filmmakers to not give him a voice-over, he shrugs. "You know, I'm beginning to think that that is becoming true. I get so many requests to do narratons, and voice-overs, for documentaries. It's like, the come-on is: 'Only you can do it!' Of course, if you |
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