Jeffrey Wright knows how much work it takes to land a Oscar – And we’re not just talking about the actual work part.
Wright won the best actor for 2023 film “American fiction.” Now he says Men’s health How that taxed the media campaign was under Awards. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023, where it Won People’s Choice Award; It later earned Gotham and Indie Spirit nods and an indieview.
“It was interesting. It was a grinding – annoying sometimes, “Wright said about getting an Oscar price. “I thought it was disproportionate, but also touches at moments and personal. I had to interact with many people who appreciated not only the work I did at ‘American Fiction’, but also work I have done throughout my career. People whose work touched me, people I respect, other actors who have been influential to me. Yes, so it was a lot. ”
He added, “Nice to be recognized by your peers, but I’m glad it’s over.”
Wright earlier told IndieWires Anne Thompson That his role in “American Fiction” was his “most personal” so far.
“We rarely see a family that is equally authentic and loving and dysfunctional. And at the same time a family that also happens to be black. I have never played these notes in my career, “Wright said about the character in the satire based on the novel” Erasure “by Percival Everett. “I’ve never had the opportunity to live in it in a movie or show before. But again, these things had become so critical and so central in my life that it was gratifying to me that inhabit it. I grew up by two women, my mother and her older sister, my aunt. And then my mother was a huge presence. She was definitely our family’s support and epicenter. And then she wasn’t. It took a lot to wrestle with it and fill in this clover. ”
Wright added that he realized how affecting “American fiction” was during filming.
“The crew is the first audience,” he said. “And the crew tells if you do something that can be special, because you can only observe an increase in the pride in what they do in one day to day. And when you see them work for 17 hours or whatever with extra attention to detail And a lighter spring in the step because they really dig what is happening, you know you are on something. “There is” quiet on the set “, as well as the cliche, but there is an extra degree of silent that happens. And you go, ‘oh, ok. We touch something. “”
