Joe Morton
Joe Morton
Joseph Thomas "Joe" Morton, Jr.is an American stage, television, and film actor. He worked with film director John Sayles in The Brother from Another Planet, City of Hopeand Lone Star. Other films he appeared in include Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Of Mice and Men, Speed, Apt Pupil, What Lies Beneath, Ali, Paycheck, Stealthand American Gangster. In 2014, Morton won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Rowan Pope, Olivia Pope's father,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth18 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
With my background, I came out of the theater.
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
It's like any other dream, everyone takes out their hammer and chisel and go after that rock until finally somebody finishes it.
There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.
Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.