He and I had met very, very briefly, for five or 10 minutes, prior to our working on this scene, and he just brought it. And the reason was, I felt I had to get out that movie before the election to highlight [then-President Trump's] misogyny, corruption and dangerous slide into authoritarianism, and also the danger in conspiracy theories and lies being spread by social media and the government, which I think we saw the effect of on Jan. 6. It's not about what other people say. And obviously, I was trying to pitch that I should improvise. Beaming in remotely for the annual Envelope Oscar Roundtable, held virtually this year due to the pandemic, the quintet vowed to raise a glass when it’s safe to do so. Had the film come out and audiences not responded to it, that would not have impacted how I feel about the process. I got a chance to chat with them during this week's AAFCA Virtual Roundtable Series where they discussed this father/son subplot and … Refusing the producer's request that he portray the "angry black man" stereotype, Adrian listens as the white men on the show lament that they, too, are victims of racism. BARON COHEN (Laughs.) We have excerpts, and you can watch the entire interview in our player below! I try to remind myself that despite whatever my personal circumstances are, I’m a lot better off than a lot of other people. That’s that’s my go-to kiss move.” It’s humiliating. During a press roundtable event with director Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, and Jonathan Majors about Lee’s upcoming film, Da 5 Bloods, we got a chance to ask the director about his thoughts on the Brees situation. With Sorkin, you're coming to it with a great script, so you have that safety net. I wanted to remind people of the power of peaceful protest. AdChoices We didn’t know what we were going to do for the end of the movie. You got injured. But ahead of The Town, I asked a bunch of other actor-directors, "What was it that made you feel confident enough that you could actually do it?" Even though sometimes I was getting two takes, I was fine with that, because on Borat, you got one. It’s the whole thing I’m doing. So there's advantages and disadvantages. And the feelings that overwhelmed me were fear, awe, gratitude and submission. Riz Ahmed: I struggled a little bit with stopping working. In some ways, those are characters that are always interesting. GARY OLDMAN You make a movie with, say, Netflix, you don't have to have an opening weekend. You'd have a giant amount of pressure to have that movie do a bunch of money in the first weekend. It’s not something you just do with your ears, it’s something you do with your whole body by being present. Approaching work from that point of view is scary because you don't know if anybody's going to see. I wake up feeling so blessed that I am in a career where I want to go in to work. The very first scene that he worked on in the film with me was the scene that takes place at the end, when his character and my character come together at the stream. Then, in terms of Chicago 7, I felt I had to make that as well because it showed the importance of standing up to racism, immorality and police brutality. 2021-02-24. But there's also something beautiful about the space between words and the space between moments. Recently, director Spike Lee and stars Delroy Lindo and Jonathan Majors got together for a Critics Choice Association exclusive virtual roundtable to talk about the film. Every night for two weeks, I recorded the beginning and end of the speech. Why did you feel anxious about taking on and embracing that role? I’ve put in the time. So my hope is that all the suffering and all the people that have lost loved ones isn’t in vain — that we can come out of this with a greater sense of clarity about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. Steven, you have a crazy connection with Minari writer-director Lee Isaac Chung …. This year, with almost everything streaming, how do you gauge the degree to which your movie is resonating? His first film, Munyurangabo, was one of the first films I saw with my wife 10 years ago, and I'll be honest, I didn't know how to appreciate it then because I was just a starving improviser in Chicago. I'll go into a scene and there can be 50 lines that have just been written that I have to memorize. Delroy Lindo: It sounds really cliché, but it’s been good to be spending time with my family. And everybody’s pulling up next to me going, “Hey, George Clooney! BARON COHEN On Borat, I'm turning to the crew, the director and a young Bulgarian actress and saying, "Listen, you are risking getting arrested today or physically harmed or insulted." Lindo: I had that, that somebody would tap me on the shoulder and say, “We found you out. Complete filmography, streaming sources, videos & biography for Delroy Lindo. Clooney is photographed with a floral creation from the Bloome and Plume studio of artist Maurice Harris. He said, "Trust me." It can be very powerful to believe in something bigger than and other than yourself, and that your work has that wider significance. Sacha Baron Cohen had polar-opposite dual roles in 2020, playing '60s activist Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 and everyone's favorite Kazakh TV host in Jason Woliner's Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. LINDO I'm going to piggyback on that. In a virtual roundtable hosted by the African American Film Critics Association, Lindo tells me, “Spike inviting me to be part of his projects has gifted me with these brilliant characters to play as an actor.” Lindo has graced us with his presence in three Spike Lee joint previously- Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), and Clockers (1995). In a conversation recorded last month, actors Delroy Lindo, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman and George Clooney copped to the pangs of self-doubt they’ve experienced in their careers and the “jet fuel” that’s helped them power through. He was working on “The Wizard of Oz,” and he was ultimately kicked off — he pretty much made enemies with everyone he worked with. And that was the fun in playing that — it's a glance, a look, the shoulders, the breathing, the way you sit. It was the Daniel Day-Lewis approach to that! It's really about grief and losing a child, which, thank God, I have not experienced, and is probably the worst thing you can experience. He would find any excuse to get the psychological advantage. Delroy Lindo was 16 and living in London during the height of the Vietnam War. He took lemons and made lemonade, which is what we have to do oftentimes. AFFLECK I had a similar experience. Malcolm & Marie, however, was entirely made during the pandemic, and is available only on Netflix. He was in a town that he loved, [but] what he did for a job, he felt wasn’t in any way connected to literature and was beneath him, in an industry he despised. Delroy Lindo stars in the Spike Lee film “Da 5 Bloods” as a Vietnam vet. That's encouraging. You know if you did something interesting. I lost 18 pounds. Unbelievably, she's actually gone on to be a very successful producer. Then, maybe take 32, you come out the other side. That feeling of being caught out as a fraud, of not really being good enough. Oddly enough, after a couple of days, it was rather liberating. This story first appeared in the Feb. 24 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Both Lindo and Washington experienced early breaks — decades apart — via Spike Lee (the former alongside Denzel Washington, who is the father of the latter and to whom Lindo, Oldman and Affleck passed along their regards). Every possible precaution was taken to make the Malcolm & Marie shoot safe. The face, it just isn’t right.” And I said, “What? Actor Riz Ahmed stars in “Sound of Metal” as a drummer who loses his hearing. But then it was 25 years before you guys reunited on Bloods. I grew up cutting tobacco in Kentucky for $3 an hour, and I knew I didn’t want to do that for a living. A clip from the TV series The Good Fight has gone viral as an example of a powerful response to anyone who tries to justify using racist language.. People relive the movie through that moment. It played faster. Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-American actor of film, stage, and television. Does that feel like a load off your shoulders? And there were so many other extraordinary components of this character that were just gold for an actor. I had to wear a bulletproof vest for two scenes. Sacha, your association with Abbie Hoffman goes back decades …, BARON COHEN When I was 20, I was staying at the YMCA in downtown Atlanta researching a thesis on Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement of the '60s. Yeun: It’s so nice when you’re forced into a situation where you realize that the work is itself, and you are part of that work, and there’s not really much more beyond that — that you can just submit to what it is, and then it feels like you’re just moving with it and just surfing it. So yes, I'm an alcoholic. Your screen career really launched with the films you made with him in the early '90s: Malcolm X, Crooklyn and Clockers. We spent a million dollars of the budget for testing and PPE. Actress Roundtable: Michelle Pfeiffer, Andra Day, more on ‘terrifying’ choices, objectifying women. You know if it was a valuable experience. Yeun, who stars as a family man chasing his American dream in “Minari,” described the sensation of panic — then faith — that overcame him while in the shower two days before filming. When you come over here — at least, when I came over here — you’re really separate from your parents; they’re trying to hold onto a little bit of where they came from, and you’re just living your own American existence. It’s a timely reminder of the power of this media. Sitemap | March 03, 2021 There's got to be a reason why you're going through that. What's better than waking up in the morning and going, "God, wow, the car is here early. LINDO It was a budgetary decision mixed with Spike's genius. Then he comes in and starts to work. David is watching everything else in the first four, five, six takes — he's calibrating the lighting, or he's saying, "The camera, when it lands, it's got to be here." Something I’ve found with the more successful people I’ve got to work with is we all have a sense of impostor syndrome. I went and there were about 11 people in the audience, but there was something to be said for being in this big space in a dark room watching this thing 40 feet across. When I can hide, it makes me feel more comfortable. We have a great deal of gratitude for the fact that we were able to be in our homes and have some security, because there are an awful lot of people around the world that don’t. Clooney: I was directing, so I wanted to make sure I had as few lines as possible! But I was recently in London and Mank was playing a three-minute walk from my hotel, and I thought, "I've never seen this on the big screen. Impostor syndrome: Everybody feels it, even Hollywood's most seasoned stars. I've been cut before. In a conversation recorded last month, actors Delroy Lindo, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman and George Clooney copped to the pangs of self-doubt they've experienced in their careers and the "jet fuel" that's helped them power through. He's like a conductor of an orchestra. I have never gone door to door. Then the writers strike happened and things fell apart. I played a pediatrician on “ER,” and [he] was an alcoholic and a womanizer and did everything terrible — but at the end of the day, [he] would always save the kid. I'm just glad it happened. So I knew about him from the age of 20. Meanwhile, the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has touched everyone around the globe, including our panelists. On a film at Sundance? How are you all feeling, and what helped you get through 2020? I feel like I’ve earned the right to continue to attempt to work. I was like, "What are you talking about?" Yeun is photographed with a floral creation from the Bloome and Plume studio of artist Maurice Harris. Although some things were hard about it, it was also kind of cathartic and reminded me why I love and started acting in the first place. OLDMAN I'm not so concerned with the end product. Tenet, like all Nolan movies, was intended for the big screen, and he insisted on that even when most theaters were closed. The phone has stopped ringing for more talented people than me. You mean the one I’m pulling? The insurrection that we saw in Washington — that mob was crossing state lines to incite a riot, right? They taught me the true meaning of communication, when you’re not hiding behind words. (Laughs.) Understanding that your work can have a wider significance than just entertainment, understanding that it can have this wider social repercussion and actually contribute incrementally to stretching culture, that is incredibly animating. How did his relationship with words inform who he was to you? Terms of Use | But on the surface what was really terrifying was a portrayal of this type of person that really hadn’t been seen in American cinema. I was like, "What?!" I'm on the verge of directing my first film, and I'm trying to figure out a way of filming my scenes separately so that I can then concentrate on the rest of the material. Chadwick Boseman’s passing was a tremendous loss. I always have something to prove. By take 37, it was absolutely perfect." The best work is the next one.’”. And that's quite apart from the risks of getting shot, because we were obviously antagonizing them. Oldman: Many years ago, I worked with Francis Ford Coppola, and he wanted me in a scene, to weep. You've got to navigate your way through that and make sure you've got the usable lines in there. And he said, "Have you ever been sitting on a movie that you were acting in and looked over at the director and thought, 'If this asshole can do it …' " (Laughs.). And Steven Yeun, best known for TV's The Walking Dead, portrayed the patriarch of a Korean American family in Lee Isaac Chung's Minari. We’re sometimes thinking, “What the hell am I doing here?” You have moments when you lose faith in yourself. And actually, one of the scenes [when he was staying with the QAnon adherents] was five days long, so there are pages and pages of dialogue that I'm trying to get in. I think the gags worked better. My question to him on the first day was, "Why me?" BARON COHEN He listened for an hour. Honestly, when you’re good, you’re good. You can just be an ordinary guy. And the director said, “Gary, there’s something about the face. It seemed crazy at the time. https://thegrio.com/2020/04/06/delroy-lindo-white-anchor-n-word He is the recipient of such accolades as a NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Posted on February 9th, 2021 / 52 notes. Rashida Jones talks about Bill Murray and pandemic life, Michelle Pfeiffer talks working with cats and playing fun roles, Andra Day talks the power of Billie Holiday. I think it would be a sad day for any of us to maybe look up at the screen and think, “My God, I’m wonderful in this. Delroy, you have a long history with Spike. Because there's a lot of mystification of the process and a lot of people who want to set you back from it. That was his first day at work. I’d already done some of the research. YEUN That's a great question. Delroy, Spike asked you and the other actors cast as the vets to also play the younger version of yourselves. It’s the old story that performers have, or anyone in the arts, where you’re always waiting for that tap on the shoulder — where someone’s going to find you out and say, “We know who you really are.” You’re always striving just to get better. And for me to be able to show that I understand him and that I see him? I can't remember who said it, but, "You can make a bad movie with a great script, but you can't make a great movie with a bad script." So I enjoy the streaming services like everyone else. DELROY LINDO It didn't feel like 25 years. I'm curious to hear from the actor-directors what your experience was, if you don't mind? Oldman: This impostor syndrome, it’s a good thing to have. Kate Winslet, on sex scenes, and fighting “heterosexual stereotypes” in movies. That little trick, device, call it what you will, produced the right emot a three-minute thing. Thirteen years later, I asked whether there's any way they'd reconsider me for the role of the, like, 35-year-old that Spielberg had cast me as, and somehow, Aaron agreed. So when David said, "I want you as naked as you've ever been, I do not want a veil between you and the audience," it played into my insecurities. And that's equally because of my father and my mother, because I respect them as artists so much. Gary Oldman: As I worked on the character and read as much as I could around the script, you realized what a great talent, a great brain, was at work. The most junior at 36, John David Washington had a breakthrough year playing a time-hopping intelligence agent in Christopher Nolan's Tenet and a filmmaker with domestic troubles in Sam Levinson's Malcolm & Marie. They tried to kind of shunt me quietly to the side, and I’m still here. Now people have been taught that they can just watch at home and that's fine, so I think it'll be very hard to get those kinds of movies back in theaters. Can you do that again?". I mean, I also happen to identify with being an aging alcoholic screenwriter, so maybe I'm biased, but it's incredible — and I don't know that somebody right now in the studio-theatrical world would do it. It all came together into this feeling of just faith,” he said. Actor Roundtable: Ben Affleck, Sacha Baron Cohen, Delroy Lindo, Gary Oldman, John David Washington and Steven Yeun on Their Liberating Roles by … YEUN I sat next to my dad at Sundance. Obviously, we'd both gotten older. Steven Yeun: I think ultimately the fear, subconsciously, was being forced to see your father’s generation a little bit clearer. Actor Delroy Lindo has the perfect response in a fictionalized debate about the so-called double standard, in which it’s OK for Black people to use the N-word but white people can’t. Get out.” If somebody said that to me, I would say, “Get the f— out of here.” Because I feel like I’ve earned it, man. “And if we were sitting in a room right now, all of us together, there’d be an empty chair for Chadwick Boseman.”. He was concerned that I wouldn't be able to do the accent because all he'd seen me do was the first Borat, so he put me with a dialect coach and said, "OK, in two weeks' time, I want this speech done as Abbie Hoffman.". WASHINGTON In football, guys get cut every day, so I don't care what number I am on the call sheet, this could be my last day. Admiration was mutual and plentiful during the hour-plus conversation in mid-January. I believed in it that much. In front of like, hundreds of people? But a lot less was under your control with the Borat sequel, Sacha, right? So the fact that it got made is probably because a streaming service made it. So you go, "OK." And really, it was the best call. In a way, I feel the deaf community in New York taught me the true meaning of listening. I have 3-year-old twins, so that’s been an adventure in a lot of washing dishes and changing diapers. FULL Actors Roundtable: Delroy Lindo, Steven Yeun, John David Washington & More — A Hot Set Ben Affleck ( The Way Back ), Delroy Lindo ( Da 5 Blood ), Gary Oldman ( Mank ), John David Washington ( Malcolm & Marie , Tenet ), Sacha Baron Cohen ( The Trial of the Chicago 7 , Borat Subsequent Moviefilm ) and Steven Yeun (' Minari ') join for the Actors Roundtable. I like the journey. My own, mostly. I think actors — and brilliant actors like you, Delroy — make good directors because the most important thing about directing, in my view, is taste, and you clearly have that. And certainly, the guy behind me was having a good time. [Baron Cohen is 49.]. 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