Morgan Freeman Talks ‘The Gray House,’ Rips Into Black History Month: ‘My History Is American History’
15.06.2024 - 19:47
/ variety.com
Marta Balaga Morgan Freeman isn’t a fan of Black History Month. “I detest it. The mere idea of it.
You are going to give me the shortest month in a year? And you are going to celebrate ‘my’ history?! This whole idea makes my teeth itch. It’s not right,” he tells Variety. “My history is American history.
It’s the one thing in this world I am interested in, beyond making money, having a good time and getting enough sleep.” Having exec produced Civil War series “The Gray House” alongside Lori McCreary through Revelations Entertainment, the past is very much on Freeman’s mind. “If you don’t know your past, if you don’t remember it, you are bound to repeat it,” he says. During election year, this statement seems particularly poignant.
“Do you know this song? ‘To everything, there is a season.’ It really, really works in showbusiness. You are trying to sell something 15 years ago and nobody even looks at you. Then they go: ‘Didn’t you have a project, some time ago? Do you still have it?’ Life is like that, in this industry.
You have got something you think is important, but trying to convince others is the difficult part.” Apart from Rod Lake, Howard Kaplan and Leslie Greif, “The Gray House” is also exec produced by Kevin Costner, who recently brought “Horizon” to Cannes. Does it mean it’s a good time for other “American sagas”? “It must be, because here we are,” Freeman says. The series opened Monte-Carlo Television Festival on Friday, while Freeman himself picked up the Crystal Nymph award.