American Fiction Movie Featurette - Jeffrey Wright Is “Monk" (2023) - Plot Synopsis:
US Release Date: December 15, 2023
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz
Director : Cord Jefferson
Synopsis: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
US Release Date: December 15, 2023
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz
Director : Cord Jefferson
Synopsis: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
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00:00 Okay, let's begin.
00:01 Monk is a writer.
00:03 He wants to be intellectually free
00:05 and write from that perspective.
00:07 - They want a black book.
00:08 - They have a black book.
00:09 I'm black and it's my book.
00:11 - You know what I mean.
00:13 - But when he discovers a writer played by Issa Rae,
00:16 he becomes very jealous of her success.
00:19 - Would you give us the pleasure of reading an excerpt?
00:21 - Yo, Sharonda, you be pregnant again?
00:24 If I is, Rae Rae is gonna be a real father this time around.
00:28 (audience applauding)
00:29 - Thank you.
00:30 - Look at what they expect us to write.
00:32 - Monk pulls a prank and writes a novel
00:34 called "My Pathology."
00:36 It becomes a best-selling novel of his career.
00:39 - We sold your book.
00:40 - No.
00:41 - They ran 300,000 copies.
00:42 - Your books change people's lives.
00:43 - They're offering $4 million for moving rights.
00:46 - Yes!
00:47 - The dumber I'm with him, the richer I get.
00:49 ♪ I'm too good to do bad ♪
00:50 - It's quite a milestone for me
00:53 to get a chance to just share the screen with Jeffrey Wright.
00:56 - People wanna love you, Monk.
00:57 You should let 'em love all of you.
00:59 - I texted my mom, like,
01:00 "I got the part with Jeffrey Wright."
01:01 She was like, "What?"
01:02 (laughs)
01:03 - The minute Jeffrey signed on,
01:04 I was so excited.
01:05 He's an incredible actor.
01:07 - Jeffrey becomes something different in every role,
01:09 and I didn't know that he was a laugher,
01:11 but we met him laughing a lot,
01:13 which made me really happy.
01:14 - The film offered me a character to wrap myself around
01:18 on the most personal and kind of emotional level
01:20 that I could sink my teeth into.
01:22 ♪ I'm too good to do bad ♪
01:24 ♪ Oh, oh ♪
01:28 ♪ You've got to come back ♪
01:30 (whooshing)
01:32 (whooshing)
01:34 (whooshing)
01:37 [BLANK_AUDIO]