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Robin Harrs, Do The Right Thing, 1988. Spike had seen the London-born Lindo in August Wilson’s sixth Broadway play, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (fourth of his ten-play Pittsburg Cycle).. ”That’s how I got to cast him as West Indian Archie in Malcolm X. Then he was in Clockers. So we are now working 25 years. He didn’t tell me, because I forgot; I offered him the role to be one of the [three] corner men [Sweet Dick Willie] in Do the Right Thing – and he turned it down.” Said Lindo: “Glad Spike didn’t hold that against me!”
- Yaphet Kotto, Two If by Sea, 1996. Australian director Bill Bennett’s Hollywood debut budget was slashed and he could no longer afford the Spike Lee’s Malcolm X find.
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