American Fiction
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TheWrap Reviews All the 2024 Oscars Best Picture Nominees
From “Barbie” to “The Holdovers” to “Past Lives,” revisit our takes on the year’s very best movies
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‘Origin’ and ‘American Fiction’ Receive Adapted Screenplay Scripter Award Nominations
Oscar favorites “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” are also finalists
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Natalie Portman and More Stars at the 2024 AFI Luncheon | Photos
Awards season’s most relaxed event brought out some big names
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Jeffrey Wright Says He’s ‘Grateful’ the Director of ‘American Fiction’ Didn’t Want Anyone Else in the Lead Role: ‘No Plan B’
TheWrap magazine: Despite being sent a list of Hollywood actors for his feature directorial debut, Cord Jefferson said he “just knew” Wright was the only one for the role
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Watch ‘American Fiction’ Director Cord Jefferson Talk About His Cast in New Featurette: ‘I’m Forever Grateful for That’ | Exclusive
The TIFF-winning feature hits additional cities this Friday before going wide in January
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Jeffrey Wright to Receive Montecito Award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
The “American Fiction” star will be honored on Feb. 15, 2024
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‘American Fiction’ Cast and Character Guide: Who Cord Jefferson Handpicked to Star in the Film
In the satirical comedy, Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated novelist whose big break comes when he pens a book that exploits Black stereotypes
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‘American Fiction’ Star Jeffrey Wright Says He’s Fought ‘Mind-Blowing’ Racial Ignorance in Hollywood: ‘I Grew Up in America. It’s Familiar Territory’
He and costars Tracee Ellis Ross and Erika Alexander talk colorism, racist typecasting and facing racial microagressions in the entertainment industry
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‘American Fiction’ Star Erika Alexander Launches Into an Impromptu Audition for ‘Black Panther 3’ | Video
It’s not often that a Zoom interview turns into a Zoom audition, but the actress tells TheWrap she’s “been working on that accent”
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Sterling K. Brown Says ‘American Fiction’ Flexes How He’s ‘Much Sillier Than People Give Me Credit For’
TheWrap magazine: Brown, who won Emmys for “This Is Us” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” says “I guess I fool them into thinking that I am a serious actor
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How ‘American Fiction’ Grew Out of Cord Jefferson’s Own Experiences of Being Piegonholed as a Black Writer
TheWrap magazine: “The subtext of all those conversations is an inability to see Black life as being as complex and dynamic and broad and deep as anybody else’s life,” Jefferson says
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‘American Fiction’ Trailer: Jeffrey Wright Exploits Stereotypes of Black Life to Sell Books (Video)
“The dumber I behave, the richer I get,” the struggling author explains as his manufactured memoir becomes a best-seller
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‘American Fiction’ Review: Jeffrey Wright Shines in Beautiful, Jazzy Comedy
Toronto Film Festival: Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut makes serious points about Black representation but does so with a wonderfully light touch
