20 Questions: Forest Whitaker

March, 1992

The biggest young actor in America--at six feet two inches and 260 pounds, he dwarfs Penn, Dillon and Depp--Forest Whitaker is also one of the least likely stars in American film. He's overweight. He's shy. And he's black, a condition that has cost him a few plum roles in Hollywood. Whitaker won the Best Actor award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival for his performance as doomed jazzman Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood's "Bird." He has also appeared in Martin Scorsese's "The Color...

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