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EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sheen gets candid about essaying the role of J. Edgar Hoover in Judas and the Black Messiah
Just ahead of the release of Judas and the Black Messiahs, we recently chatted with Martin Sheen who portrays the role of J. Edgar Hoover in the film. Scroll down to see what he said.
We recently caught up with Grace and Frankie alum Martin Sheen who got candid and opened up about his upcoming and much-anticipated film Judas and the Black Messiah. The film is slated to release in India on March 5 and has been critically acclaimed by the global audience. Not just that, the film even earned two Golden Globes Awards Nominations-- one for Best Supporting Actor-Daniel Kaluuya and the second for Best Song-Fight For You.
Sheen’s upcoming film takes inspiration from true events. Set in the late 1960s, the film highlights one of the most tumultuous and pivotal periods in American history. A nation rife with political and social unrest was besieged by explosive demonstrations against the prevailing social and gender norms, the Vietnam war and racial injustice. Black communities across the country, tired of facing racial disparities in health care, housing, education and employment—all outgrowths of systemic inequality—had finally had enough. Martin Sheen can be seen playing the pivotal role of J. Edgar Hoover in the film.
Talking about his role, Sheen told PINKVILLA, "Despite the abuses of power we have been witness to in our history, I am still appalled by the paranoid lengths Hoover was allowed to go in pursuit of his perceived enemies, which he elevated to enemies of the state. These are instances unthinkable in light of our society’s ongoing pursuit of human rights and equal justice. But plainly put, he worked to annihilate the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements by targeting those he called ‘Black Messiahs’—Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton. And Hoover ended Hampton’s life.”
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