Morgan Freeman expresses his disapproval 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 as he opened up about his new series
“The Gray House”.
“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.”
He went on to add,
“If you don’t know your past, if you don’t remember it, you are bound to repeat it,”
he says.
Morgan Freeman, alongside Lori McCreary through Revelations Entertainment, has executive produced the Civil War series
“The Gray House.”
This series, which opened the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, follows the captivating story of four Southern women. Elizabeth Van Lew, a socialite from Virginia, her mother, a formerly enslaved Black woman named Mary Jane Richards, and a prostitute, joined forces to spy for the Union. The show is based on true events and promises to be a thrilling journey.
“Do you know this song? ‘To everything, there is a season.’ It really, really works in show business. 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.”
#Clique, what are your thoughts?
