Starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.
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was the first black Navy diver, and the movie is about his trials and tribulations ... American Gun is about how guns affect different people…. I played a kid who brings a gun to school because people were messing with me. And Forest Whitaker, who played the school principal, tells me guns are not the way to resolve problems. It was a very emotional scene. I was crying. It was an amazing experience and the most challenging acting I had ever done.
If you were to tell me about a film starring Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker and produced by Oprah, I would have bet my job that film was going to succeed
An executive told me straight: `Even if he (Forest Whitaker) wins the Oscar he's ugly, he's black and he's unbankable.’
for giving me the $35 dollars to make this movie. Whereas the 'Oceans 11' films were an ensemble for good looking guys, this is an ensemble for ugly tough guys
Armstrong left a monumental mark on our lives and our culture ... He lived an amazing life and, through his art, shifted the way music was played and would be heard after him, not just here in the U.S. but all over the world.