'Shawshank Redemption' at 25: Why Morgan Freeman almost balked at playing 'Irishman' Red
Morgan Freeman was enchanted by Frank Darabont’s script for The Shawshank Redemption when he first read it. He was even more tickled when his agent told him the filmmakers were interested in casting him to play Ellis “Red” Redding, the inmate and prison smuggler serving a life sentence who befriends the wrongfully convicted Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) in the revered drama, which was released 25 years ago, on Sept. 23, 1994. Freeman wasn’t however, familiar with the original source material pe...
'Shawshank Redemption' at 25: Why Morgan Freeman almost balked at playing 'Irishman' Red
Morgan Freeman was enchanted by Frank Darabont’s script for The Shawshank Redemption when he first read it. He was even more tickled when his agent told him the filmmakers were interested in casting him to play Ellis “Red” Redding, the inmate and prison smuggler serving a life sentence who befriends the wrongfully convicted Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) in the revered drama, which was released 25 years ago, on Sept. 23, 1994. Freeman wasn’t however, familiar with the original source material pe...
