You have to make an emotional and spiritual adjustment in order to continue on. They came to the plate earlier than motion pictures. My white girlfriends had two auditions a day.
Moody: It was heartbreaking not to have anything to do. Gossett: When Madge Sinclair went up to ABC again, they looked at her and they said, “We’ve done our quota for black people.”īrown: When you look at what’s being made, you say, “Where am I included?” Still, to this day, we are the minority in the industry.Īmos: It’s not a level playing field, but it has improved appreciably. Moody: People said to Stan Margulies, “Doesn’t it make you feel good to employ so many blacks?” And he said it was bittersweet because they have nowhere to go from here. You know what it was like working with two black men? That was amazing. Uggams: I looked around and went, “Thank you, Jesus.” Look at all these fabulous actors and actresses.īrown: Thank God for Joe Wilcots, our cinematographer, who was black. ĭid it feel revolutionary to have so much black talent working on the same show?Ī chat with the cast of the original “Roots,” including John Amos, Lynne Moody, Ben Vereen, Leslie Uggams, Georg Stanford Brown, Louis Gossett Jr. I hope he wasn’t looking for me to reimburse him. 38 and I went and shot the TV!” That was the funniest thing that happened. Man, it really affected me… I was halfway through it and I went and got my. He said, “Hey, man, I watched that ‘Roots’ on TV last night, man. He said, “Man, pull over!” So I pulled the car over. John Amos (Kunta Kinte as an adult): I was on the freeway and this big brother pulls up next to me in this piece of ancient Detroit steel. What are your memories from the week it aired? I can’t look at any of those brutal scenes. Sandy Duncan (Missy Anne Reynolds): Absolutely. We had a lot of white actors that were greatly affected as well.
He was just broken up at the thought of having to go through that. I’d come home and I’d have so much rage.īrown: There’s a scene where I get whipped and Lloyd Bridges had to do it. Later on, I started finding out that the plantation owner had 10 children by her mother… And, I finally understood why my grandmother didn’t talk about her life growing up.
I could never figure out how she could be my grandmother. Moody: Because of “Roots,” I was able to embrace where I came from and know that the languages that were spoken in Africa were comparable to any European culture or language, which was robbed from my youth, because they taught black history in a paragraph. The cast of the original “Roots” chats about their experiences on the show, and Lynne Moody talks about being educated through the show.
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