The story is relevant to today's murky world politics. There are Hitlers of the future lurking, and if you want to comprehend what makes evil tick, you have to begin with ordinary human emotions, with his the hardest for moviegoers to accept–Director Meno Meyjes

Our documentary came out of a longer collaboration we have with Leonardo DiCaprio and his environmental work. We created two shorts for distribution on his website, one on global warming (Global Warning, 2001) and one on fresh water (Water Planet, 2004).

You don‚Äôt have to be a Washingtonian, or black, to appreciate someone who was so dynamic. Here was a man who was the voice of his community, and who said things so many of us would like to say. Petey wasn‚Äôt always right, but he meant what he said. What I also saw was the potential for this biopic to evolve into something enormously entertaining and accessible–Director Kasi Lemmons.

The story of a guy who is said to not have any friends, who lashes out in violence and who, to prove the opposite, makes an absurd and abstract gamble, to show others this friend he doesn‚Äôt have, allowed me to deal with friendship and the lack of friendship–Leconte.

For quite a while, though, it was hard for me to grasp the concept of being a leading man for 30 years, and now I am being sought out to play a fat woman from Baltimore. But after many, many months of indecision, they successfully convinced me to shake my booty again, but this time as Edna–Travolta