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Actor and Humanitarian Activist – Forest Whitaker

13/02/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Actor and Humanitarian Activist – Forest Whitaker

Zeinab Badawi talks to one of cinema’s best-known and versatile actors, Forest Whitaker

Zeinab Badawi speaks to humanitarian activist and one of Hollywood’s best known and versatile actors, Forest Whitaker. One role for which he won numerous accolades including an Oscar for best actor was his portrayal of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. But how far is he concerned that his portrayal of Idi Amin played into racist stereotypes of Africans and their continent?

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