Ray Fisher stars as Lymon, the best friend of lead character Boy Willie Charles, played by John David Washington, in Netflix's period drama "The Piano Lesson." His performance has even generated some early Oscar buzz.
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Fisher’s last few years have been challenging following his public spat with “Justice League” director Joss Whedon and former DC Films president Walter Hamada. But this project offers Fisher a chance to move forward.
"What's helped this whole process is that I got to hand it over to August Wilson," Fisher said during an interview at the Variety Studio, sponsored by J.Crew and SharkNinja, at the Toronto International Film Festival. "The contradiction that existed in the piece, in the character. I think there's a little bit of Lymon Jackson in all of us. There's an innocence to him in this piece that a lot of people lose over time, especially when you go through such hardships. For me, it was a palate cleanser in a lot of ways, because I've gone through specific hardships in my life and some hardships in my career. Being able to come back to this space and say, 'I don't want to dwell on this. I don't want to feel resentful about what happened.' I want to move on, and that's what Lymon is all about."
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