American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright on Bond, bankability and his Oscar nomination: ‘I’m thinking about it more than is healthy’
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFor the first time in his career, Jeffrey Wright is up for a Best Actor Oscar. I meet the star of the slippery new satire American Fiction before any announcements have been made. Still, Wright, dressed all in black in a slick London hotel, is aware of the awards buzz. “Yes”, he concedes demurely, “it’s swirling around.”Wright is known in the industry as “Mr Dependable” – a…