{"id":11830,"date":"2016-12-09T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:28:55","slug":"denzel-washington-returns-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/12\/denzel-washington-returns-fences.html","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington Reprises His Role in &#8216;Fences&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Fences Official Trailer #1 (2016) Denzel Washington, Viola Davis Drama Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jj-ZYPVRQbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Denzel Washington will direct and star in the movie &#8220;Fences&#8221; adapted from the Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning play by August Wilson, which explored race and class relations in America.<\/p>\n<p>Washington will reprise his role as\u00a0Troy Maxson after starting in the play, which ran for 13 weeks in 2010. The story is about\u00a0a 53-year-old sanitation worker in Pittsburgh who spent time in prison\u00a0for an accidental murder he committed\u00a0during a robbery. Troy was a rising star in the Negro League and had hopes of making money as a baseball player, but he could not make enough to survive. He then becomes caustic and a stalwart against being irresponsible after experiencing a segregated world. This causes friction\u00a0in his relationship with his son who\u00a0wants to play football and who does not want a job.\u00a0We all have fences that we build in life like Troy. However, you can build a fence, but make sure you have a gate to allow people to enter and exit.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this film special? The message is universal said Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fences is about a man who lives with a fence around his life to be able to lay claim to his own particular\u00a0humanity,&#8221; said Washington. &#8220;What is so powerful about\u00a0Wilson is that he speaks to our condition and at the same time it is universal,&#8221; Washington said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing about Wilson is he&#8217;s always had this cultural\u00a0blues kind of spiritual theology in all of his plays. The beauty\u00a0about &#8216;Fences&#8217; is that it speaks about the universal, but like Wilson said, &#8216;You can never\u00a0really disassociate\u00a0yourself from being a black man in America.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing about Wilson is he&#8217;s always had this cultural\u00a0blues kind of spiritual theology in all of his plays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does Washington want audiences to gain from the film? Well, it is up to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I want people to get from it depends upon what they bring to it. It\u2019s not for me to decide what it is, it\u2019s for you to watch it, enjoy it, and you decide what it is to you,&#8221; Washington told the<em> Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Viola Davis rejoins Washington as Rose Maxson where she picked up a Tony for her sparkling performance in the play in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fences&#8221; will open nationwide on Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denzel Washington will direct and star in the movie &#8220;Fences&#8221; adapted from the Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning play by August Wilson, which explored race and class relations in America. Washington will reprise his role as\u00a0Troy Maxson after starting in the play, which ran for 13 weeks in 2010. 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