Jeffrey Wright credits his’Highest 2 lowest“Director Spike Lee To encourage a career “high” of their own: doing his director debut.
Told Wright Men’s health Lee inspired him to direct his first project, which will be shot in 2026. It is unclear if it has not yet announced the project is a film Or a series, but it will be Wright’s first time behind the camera regardless.
“Well, Spike would tell me, and some other people I’ve worked with have said to me, “When are you going to direct?”, Wright said. “So it can be in the works. To is In work, in fact, for a project we shoot in 2026. I have to talk to you about the latter. ”
Wright will draw from his past experiences with AUTEurs as Lee to make his own director’s debut.
“I have had the opportunity to work with many of the major directors for the latest Pargenerations, all from Alan Pakula to Sidney Lumet to Mike Nichols,” said Wright. “When I worked with Pakula, Gordon Willis was Kinematographer. I have worked with George Wolfe. I have worked with Oliver Stone. I worked with Matt Reeves, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, Jonah Nolan at ‘Westworld.’ I have had an opportunity to observe as an apprentice for many years. And I have had the opportunity to learn from the actor’s perspective on the inner function of a film set and how to organize a frame. So, yes, I look forward to practicing some of it and not have to show up to work in the morning and put on someone else’s clothes. ”
Meanwhile, Wright plays in Lee’s adaptation by Akira Kurosawas’High and low and low“With the title” highest 2 lowest. “Denzel Washington, a $ AP Rocky, Ilfenesh Hadera and Ice Spice Round out the role. The film is an Apple original feature in collaboration with A24, which plans to release the movie theatrically before it flows on Apple TV+.
“Highest 2 Lowest” will be the first time Washington and Lee have been working together since 2006’s “Inside Man.” In total, it is their fifth movie together except for “Mo” Better Blues “,” Malcolm X “and” He got games. “
“I had worked with Denzel before,” Wright said to be reunited on set. “I did a little thing with Spike before. We had in some way been threatened to work together for many years. Spike grew up in the neighborhood that I live in and still has the head office for (his production company) 40 acres in Fort Greene. So I’ve known Spike for a long time. I just came up to work and be part of it. It is the fascinating relationship that the two have together, and it is a relationship of trust. And it’s a born over, what, five films now? No, I didn’t have time for fanboy. I had to go to work. ”
Wright, which will also come appear in “The Last of US” In addition to Washington’s “Gladiator II” co -star Pedro Pascal, Washington continued, “Denzel is nothing guilty of this game. Denzel is the successor to Sidney Poitier and has worn that mantle beautifully. So he is nothing obliged to anyone with this work. And he have done it for a long time. Most people who work as long as he has on this is ready to call it one day. So I can’t speak for Very specific in the work he does in the future And take it from there. ”
