On a visit to August Wilson’s childhood home, in Pittsburgh, the director of a new adaptation of the play discusses casting his brother (alongside Samuel L. Jackson) and working for his father, André Wheeler writes.
Washington, who is thirty-three, wore a blue jacket, stiff jeans, and leather Nikes, and had plaits pulled into a ponytail. At the Wilson House, he surveyed a new exhibition on “Jitney,” Wilson’s eighth play. Prepping for his movie, the director had spent days digging through Wilson’s archive for what he called “nuts-and-bolts research”—scraps of dialogue written on napkins, correspondence with editors. He’d tried to see Pittsburgh as Wilson had seen it.
“I’m somebody who has, my whole life, been acutely aware of the idea of legacy,” he said. “And my connection to my parents.” He went on, “In my home, growing up, my mom’s dad was like a hero. My dad’s mom was a hero, a legend. Their grandparents were legends.” So far, Denzel has put three of Wilson’s plays on film. He directed and starred in “Fences,” for which Viola Davis won an Oscar. Asked why his dad didn’t want to direct “The Piano Lesson,” Washington said, “He wasn’t in that zone.
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