One of the first things I do when I step onto a set is I scan the set and try to take in every detail, because what I’m trying to find are tools that I can use to incorporate myself into the space and tools that I can use to make the performance authentic and to build on the authenticity of that. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
I find that the work I do as an actor that’s most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry’s summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house. Jeffrey Wright Read Quote
