Actor Jeffrey Wright ’87 Sees Some of Himself in “American Fiction”
Associated Press – Wright shares thoughts about his career and his starring role in American Fiction, a new adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure. “There might be an impression of this film being comedic and satirical,” he says, “but there’s a deep vein of simple humanness inside of it that I appreciated.”
“Across an expansive array of roles both small and large for more than two decades, Wright has been among the most malleable of actors, able to transform endlessly while still maintaining a singular, rigorously grounded screen presence,” writes Jake Coyle. “But it’s Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction in which Wright gives one of the best performances of his career.”
“Wright attended private school, studied political science at Amherst College and briefly sought an MFA at New York University before leaving to pursue acting full time,” Coyle adds. Wright has performed in, among many other projects, Basquiat, The French Dispatch, Westworld and Angels in America, for which he won a Tony, an Emmy and a Golden Globe.