Colin Covert on Forest: Timber!
Posted on February 25th, 2007 – 11:12 PMBy Sara Glassman
Forest Whitaker collects the Oscar, the fourth African-American to win, following Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx, and brings closer the day when we stop counting how many black actors have won the award. It was a towering performance, no question, but re-viewing the movie recently, I was struck how little screen time he actually had. His presence was so strong that even when he was offscreen, you felt that magnetism.
3 Responses to "Colin Covert on Forest: Timber!"
Sidney Poitier doesn’t count?
Of course he counts. See why I hate counting these things?
Forest’s speech was the highlight of the show. And he had more screen time, in minutes, than Nicole Kidman did when she won best actress for “The Hours.”
