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My cinematographer will help cultivate this character so it will resonate with people.' And that is the same way it was with William Kaufman. Who said, 'With this character, I want you bigger than life. He came to me, and I felt like I did when I was sitting with Cameron Crowe. I have been blessed to have worked with these new voices, like William Kaufman, who I believe is a really talented director. So, it's literally like going back to film school, man. But it's hard for these first time directors not to have the resources to tell their stories on the grand scale that would justify a theatrical release. I have gotten these great scripts that have these great roles in them.

They said, 'We know you make this much.and you are used to this kind of production.But what about just telling a great story for barebones?' I said, 'I'm in.' That's what has happened for the last couple of years. What happened is, these producers started coming to me. Then there were a few smaller productions.And then the writers' strike hit.I think what happened with the writers strike is that all the great scripts that used to be available were no longer cheap enough for the studio budgets. There are foreign movies.' I did this one in Bulgaria. But that was the thing that stopped me from doing that. Not that I am not going to entertain the idea.

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What do you want to do?' My trepidation with a TV series was, 'How can I do what I do as an actor, and become that character, and find success as an actor while being stuck in that same role for seven or eight years? Then ask my audience to go on the next journey, which they will only see for two hours, after they had been watching another character for ten years on whatever channel this was on?' It just gave me trepidation to even consider that idea. What do you want to do? You are getting these TV offers. You look at the nominated pictures, they are not telling the African American stories. We know you want to work with these great directors. My reps had come to me, and they said, 'Listen, we get it.

I remember, Ridley Scott had said, 'If I get anything in a movie, I am looking for you.' Then, he finally called me one day and said, 'I know it's a small role, but lets do it.' It was American Gangster. That exemplified my frustration with a lot of the filmmakers I had met with after that time. He said, 'This isn't going to work, we will try again later.' Here we are, six or seven years later, and there hasn't been a follow-up call.

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But he didn't feel that we could do the movie on a scale that would do Martin Luther King's story justice. He went to the studio, the studio greenlit the project at a certain budget. For example, Oliver Stone wanted to make Martin Luther King. The thing that became evident is that a lot of the stories they wanted to tell, the studios weren't open to. After the Academy Award win, I had a lot of great meetings with a lot of great filmmakers. My career has been on a really interesting journey for the last six or seven years. With all of these quick-buck action flicks that are turned out every second of the day, how did you manage find one with such a strong script?Ĭuba Gooding Jr.: Good question. The Hit List is not your typical direct-to-DVD movie.

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