Ehe last winner of the Oscar for best actor of the academy, Forest Whitaker, who ate the camera in The Last King of Scotland, is going to play a role in Denzel Washington's second directorial film, who made his directorial debut with a drama called Antwone Fisher, which didn't have much success. The Great Debaters, as the film is called, is another drama based on real events, which recounts the life and miracles of Professor Melvin B. Tolson (a role reserved for Washington himself), who in the XNUMXs trained and trained a debate team at a modest black college in East Texas, with which he achieved great success and even faced the elite Harvard team in the national championship. Forest Whitaker will be one of the students trained by Professor Tolson ... Sneak in? Not right, well if this were a film by the Wayans brothers it could be true, but in reality Whitaker's role will be that of the father of one of those students who, apparently, will have some other conflict with the teacher.
You have to remember that both Washington (playing a masterfully corrupt cop in one of my favorites, Training Day) and Whitaker each have Oscars, and that along with Sidney Poitier, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry and Jennifer Hudson, they are the only actors. (in generic) that they have managed to lift it.
A story of racial overcoming that, according to an information published by Variety, will begin filming next month in Louisiana and in which the presenter Oprah Winfrey is also involved, undoubtedly the most influential personality of color in the American media (as Whole Rice brushes it), and here it acts as a producer of the tape.
