Cord Jefferson
Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. He's played Colin Powell, a Dominican drug kingpin, Batman's Commissioner Gordon and a longtime inmate nearing release. He's played Bill Murray's neighbor, a Civil War-era former slave, James Bond's Felix...
Jeffrey Wright's Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of " American Fiction, " a crowd-pleaser that's both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, identity politics and even Hollywood. It opens in theaters this week.
A classic frustrated...
Highlights abound on the current festival circuit for Cord Jefferson--with two in particular standing out for American Fiction (Amazon MGM Studios), which marks his directorial debut. The first major splash came last month at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where ...
Fifty pages into Percival Everett's "Erasure," Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script. Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book's academic protagonist, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, too....