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But for the last several months I’ve had to push the message that this movie is ‘inclusive.’ And I have to wonder: Why do I have to do that? Why can’t you have storytelling with an all-black cast and have it be considered universal?” “What August does is he makes you sit with the pathologies of African American life - sitting with the average, everyday Negro hearing their pain, joy, humor, sexuality, frustration - and saying that, believe it or not, you will see yourself in it. “I think it’s very difficult for a progressive artist,” said Davis, who has starred in three Wilson plays. “This movie” is an adaptation of his 1983 stage masterwork “Fences,” which Wilson had been working on for so long that it at one time had cast a red-hot Eddie Murphy … as a teenage character. See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour » And he really, really wanted this movie to come into being.” He wanted ‘Jitney’ to finally be on Broadway. “But August wanted two things to happen that hadn’t happened. “I think he felt proud of his achievements and faced death the way he faced life: courageously and uncompromisingly,” said Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow, as well as his costume designer and all-around sounding board. And, oh yes, there were some platforms his most acclaimed work had yet to reach.


But he had a new play he was fiddling with. When August Wilson received word in 2005 that he had inoperable Stage IV cancer, he was not just personally but professionally disconsolate: There was still so much work to do.Īt 60, the African American playwright had accomplished enough for a dozen lifetimes, completing the canon of 10 black-oriented plays known as the American Century Cycle - not to mention bagging two Pulitzer Prizes and a Tony Award.
