'American Fiction' star Keith David tells THR on the Oscars red carpet what the support from the film community and other actors have meant to him. Plus, he reveals what it would mean to see 'American Fiction' win best picture.
00:00When I've spoken to other actors this past awards season, so often they say that their favorite film of the year was American fiction.
00:06What is the support from the film community and other actors of the movie meant to you?
00:12There's nothing like being supported and recognized by your own peer group.
00:21It's a beautiful thing. It's a really wonderful thing.
00:24But I think that the attention that the film is getting at large is also a great tribute to America finally waking up to that it needs to have a conversation, a further conversation about what actually happens in America.
00:46What would it mean to see it win Best Picture here tonight?
00:48Come on. I mean, that would be a really wonderful thing.
00:53It's wonderful to be counted among the saints when they go marching in.
00:59But, you know, it would be a wonderful thing to win.
01:01But, you know, to have come this far is also a great blessing that must not be discounted.
01:07And here we are at the Oscars. It's been a long awards season.
01:10What's been the highlight of your awards season journey with this film?
01:13Oh, getting to have interviews like this about this film, you know, and from the time that it came along for me, you know, until now.
01:26I mean, and I've known Jeffrey a long time and it's been wonderful to see, you know, how much of how he has grown as an actor.
01:35And to see his work in this movie especially, it's so subtle and rich.
01:48So, I mean, he's a real human being.
01:51And that's what's so wonderful to see that, you know, he's a real person.
01:55And there are many people who feel like him, look like him, and have those feelings, both familial and professional.
02:11You know, so, I mean, you know, it's like, it's a great way to start a great conversation.
02:17There are so many important themes in this movie.
02:19And one of them I want to ask you about is the theme of family and family relationships.
02:23What's your take on the theme of family in the movie and how did doing this film maybe make you think about your own family relationships?
02:29Oh, my, you know, you cannot help but to, you know, think about your own place and position in your own particular family.
02:41I mean, you know, especially if you have any family members that have to deal with, you know, Alzheimer's or any form of dementia.
02:52If you have any, you know, if you have any family, you know, who has come out especially late in life and what that meant to them and just to see, to see, just, you know, who they have become.
03:08To watch them, you know, to watch them, you know, be, you know, unhappy until they finally was able to embrace themselves and express themselves and to see, you know, what a difference that makes in their everyday aspect.
03:23It's, I mean, that's kind of wonderful.
03:24It really is kind of wonderful and I thought, you know, if that was such a great dynamic in the film to watch to see how all the family unfolded.
03:36But also, you know, with somebody in relationships like the one he has with Erica to see how, you know, again, that they're both professional and personal, your neighbor and how, you know, how relationships are never just black and white or terribly simple.
03:56They are complex.
03:57Ex-husbands do come by and you do have relationship with them, whether you're in love with them or not, you know, and when you and how do you move on with grace?
04:06It's, you know, so, I mean, I love this film because of all those resonances.
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