We saw that each other, you know, was making it." "If I told him I needed some money, he told me he needed something, we looked after each other. "He stayed in touch with me I'd call him," Atwater said. He died three days before this interview. Atwater addressed her friendship with Ellis to NPR in November 2005. Unlike Green Book, Atwater and Ellis were confirmed to be friends in real life. Don Shirley, played in Green Book by Mahershala Ali, denounced the film and claimed the pianist wasn't friends with his former chauffeur Tony Lip (played by Viggo Mortensen). The Best of Enemies has parallels to 2018's Oscar Best Picture winner Green Book ,as both movies tell the story of an unlikely friendship forming between a black person and a racist white man. However, the mayor at the time of the events was James R. According to The News & Observer, Oldham is a real person who served as an executive director of the Durham Housing Authority. Durham began to integrate its first schools in 1959.Ĭarvie Oldham (Bruce McGill) portrayed the film's mayor. Board of Education deemed segregated schools unconsitutional back in 1954. While the film depicts the story of desegregation of schools in 1971, the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v.
Bissell's feature follows author Osha Gray Davidson's book, "The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South." The New Yorkeralso noted the film's indebtedness to the 2015 documentary of the same name and "the real people in it, to lend an air of authenticity to a story that he has freely changed in ways that downplay the controversies that were." The events that inspired The Best of Enemies have been explored before in a play, a book and a documentary. The 50-year-old actor said the film "can't fit everything in there" because it has a two-hour runtime.
Rockwell also told Collider that while The Best of Enemies aspired to stay completely true to the story being told, some moments were left out. We wanted a film that is going to impact lives, change thoughts and perceptions," she concluded. We are actually seeing again happening now in 2019. It was about a moment in history that actually happened. I think everyone involved, we were interested in telling the truth." None of that we, you know, embellished on-that actually happened. "Her flipping that man around and hitting him in the head with the phone. But then when you do the research and, you know, this stuff really actually happened," Henson, 48, told Collider in an interview published Wednesday. "We didn't really have to Hollywoodize the story because just reading it seemed fake already. While Atwater and Ellis initially despised each other, they wound up forming a friendship due to their involvement in the community summit.
The pair eventually come together to serve as co-chairs for the Save Our Schools summit, which aimed to address the desegregation of schools. Ellis (Rockwell) over the integration of schools in Durham, North Carolina. While most movies based on true events alter moments to make them more Hollywood-friendly, director Robin Bissell was committed to depicting the story as-is.Īnn Atwater (Henson) initially goes head-to-head in The Best of Enemies with C.P. Henson and Sam Rockwell explore the true story of an unconventional friendship that formed between a civil rights activist and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) president in 1971.
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