Jacob Dunstan is a writer and Communications graduate with years of accumulated knowledge when it comes to film and TV. He has continued to build acting experience (having enjoyed many on-set ...

In this 2000 interview, Poitier talked about his disastrous first audition, why reading was a struggle and how he went on to become the most famous Black actor of his generation. This is FRESH AIR.

Eddie Murphy was warned by Sidney Poitier not to star in "Malcolm X." During an interview for Apple TV+'s "Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood," Murphy revealed he bumped into ...

Actor and director Sidney Poitier on the set of the movie 'Lilies of the Field' for which he won the Academy Award for best actor Legendary actor Sidney Poitier, who broke barriers in 1963 as the ...

"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment, or something," he begins. "It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and ...