Thanks to an assist from Oprah, the filmmaker had a wealth of material to work with for 'Sidney,' but struggled with what to leave out: 'We had to tell the whole story.'
is meant to take the full measure of his life. Talking heads include everyone from Denzel Washington to Barbra Streisand, as well as Poitier’s children and both of his wives, Juanita Hardy and Joanna Shimkus.about documenting Poitier’s political activism, friendship with Harry Belafonte, and not wanting to eulogize: “Fortunately, Sidney was given his flowers when he was alive.
There are these people who live very long lives and every year their life is consequential. There is no year where it’s like, same old same old. No, they made history every year. So, we had to tell the whole story. Sidney’s birth is so consequential; the circumstance under which he is born is incredible and his teenage years are incredible. The issue is what do you leave out. There’s a feeling that you can get when you do this, where you think I have got to tell it all.
It’s amazing how similar they are, but there are these really key differences in perspectives that they helped shape each other. It’s such a fascinating relationship. Two guys, each of them individually, had big impacts on American history and world culture. Harry talks about the first time he saw Sidney when he came in to audition for this theater company in Harlem.
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