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- At a post-screening Q&A in November, Viggo Mortensen, who plays Tony Vallelonga in "Green Book", was speaking about racial progress in America and used the N-word while sitting right next to Mahershala Ali. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Mortensen apologized for using the word.
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Dec 6, 2020 · December 6, 2020 12:23 pm. Viggo Mortensen. AP. Viggo Mortensen has some strong words for critics of the 2019 Best Picture Oscar winner “ Green Book .” In a new interview with The...
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Green Book is about the relationship between two real-life people: Donald Shirley and Tony “Lip” Vallelonga. Shirley was born in 1927 and grew up in a well-off black family in Florida, where he emerged as a classical piano prodigy: he possessed virtuosic technique and a firm grasp of both classical and pop repertoire. He went on to perform regularl...
Green Book premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2018 amid low expectations and received mixed reviews. Many familiar with Farrelly’s past films, comedies like There’s Something About Mary and Shallow Hal co-directed by his brother Bobby Farrelly, did not expect the director to take on a subject like Green Book’s. But the crowds there...
Despite its early success with audiences, many critics were less enthusiastic, pointing out how the film fit a little too neatly into a history of white savior films, from Blood Diamond to The Blind Side. The Root said it “spoon-feeds racism to white people.” The New York Times wrote that the film has “very little that can’t be described as crude, ...
The floodgates opened even wider in December when Shadow and Act published an interviewwith the family of Donald Shirley. The family said that Nick Vallelonga and the creative team had completely left them out of the filmmaking process—and that the film was filled with falsehoods. Dr. Maurice Shirley, Donald’s brother, called it a “symphony of lies...
In an email to TIME, Edwin Shirley expanded on his disappointment over the film. “The character so superbly played by Mahershala Ali was simply not the Uncle Donald I knew,” he wrote. Edwin Shirley recalled watching his uncle discuss his musical process with Alvin Ailey and Miles Davis before and after performances in the 1980s. He said that in bot...
Michael Kappeyne, a friend of Donald Shirley’s and the executor for his estate, views the portrayal differently. Kappeyne met Shirley in 1997 and soon began taking piano lessons with him in Shirley’s Carnegie apartment. What began as twice-a-month hourly lessons accelerated into weekly meetings that could stretch longer than four hours. Kappeyne al...
While Shirley and Vallelonga take up most of the film’s screen time, the other two members of the Donald Shirley Trio also appear throughout, in concerts and stops along the road. In the film, they are named Oleg and George. But at the time, Shirley’s real bandmates were the bassist Ken Fricker and the cellist Juri Taht. Both played with Shirley ov...
Despite the many criticisms, the film glided into the Golden Globes with five nominations and left with three wins, including Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. But what should have been a celebratory night turned awkward after the creative team was ridiculed on Twitter for its overwhelming whiteness. The next few days resulted in a fresh sle...
But the firestorm did not slow the film’s awards campaign. Farrelly was nominated for outstanding directorial achievement from the Directors Guild of America; then the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and acting nods for both Ali and Mortensen. Meanwhile, the film has picked up steam at the box office, raking in it...
Dec 7, 2020 · Controversies. Viggo Mortensen Laments “Bullshit” Green Book Criticism. “ Green Book has become a pejorative,” the actor said of the best picture winner, which stoked broad debate...
Saturday 05 December 2020 07:00 GMT. Comments. ‘Does it affect what I’m doing, or how people perceive me as an actor? Maybe it does:’ Viggo Mortensen on new film ‘Falling’ and ‘Green...
Jan 12, 2019 · Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty Images. At a post-screening Q&A for Green Book in Los Angeles, actor Viggo Mortensen said, “People don’t say ‘nigger’ anymore,” which reportedly took all the air out of the room.
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Dec 11, 2018 · December 11, 2018. Ali and Mortensen star in Farrelly's Green Book. Courtesy of Universal Pictures/Participant/DreamWorks. A surprising word keeps popping up on the press tour for Peter...
