Morgan Freeman is making news this week.
Interestingly, the actor has spent time in Fort Smith, at the National Historic Site.
He’s repeatedly expressed interest in portraying U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves.
Sept. 2007 interview:
There was a character, a historical and true character, whose name was Bass Reeves who was a deputy marshal in the 1870s and ’80s, Oklahoma Territory, worked for Isaac Parker, the hanging judge, cleaning up Oklahoma Territory…in all of the Westerns that you see, none of them seem to indicate that anybody was anything but white people and Indians and the Indians were always the bad guys except of course in “Dancing with Wolves.” So this would be an opportunity — and I have been working for close to 15 years on it — to at least be inclusive…
