![]() You need an actor who, even when he is playing Jodie Foster's tormentor in Panic Room (2002), or a hit man in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), is able to command the audience's sympathy. The question is: how far will people allow themselves to be seduced? Will they allow themselves to be destroyed, if not physically then spiritually? People like Amin and Hitler do not succeed alone, but with society's complicity. Evil is always more disturbing when it has a human face, because it reveals our kinship with the supposed other. The Last King of Scotland does for Amin what the movies Max (2002) and Downfall (2004) did for Adolf Hitler: take a figure whose dimensions have been reduced almost to the point of demonic caricature, and expand their humanity. I thought, 'Am I safe in here? He doesn't seem like he's acting.' I cast him right there, on the spot." "At one point," Macdonald recalled about the audition, "I actually got uncomfortable. Macdonald saw dozens of actors for the role, and initially had doubts about Whitaker, because "he's known for being sweet, gentle and internal". He's already won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Idi Amin in Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Giles Foden's The Last King of Scotland - and he's up for a matching Oscar too. ![]() ![]() Forest Whitaker towers over me, his burly, 6ft 2in (188cm) frame a reminder that before he became an actor he had a college football scholarship.ĭespite his bear-like physique, Whitaker, 45, radiates calm his voice is soft and soothing.
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