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This story is for everyone. The best thing about a classic like Death of a Salesman
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is the fact that it taps into a humanity that crosses time and place and age and class and
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race and gender because there is a uniquely specific humanity that we all share. When you
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are authentic like this piece is it speaks to everyone no matter who you are or no matter
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where you are the more specific you are in the telling of it as we're being very specific with
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our telling of it the more specific you are the more universal it becomes. At home minding my
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business and my phone rang and I said hello this is Andre and he says Mr. DeShields this is Wendell
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Pierce. We had never had a conversation. He says I'm calling you from Budapest. I'm doing a movie
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here and I just wanted to ask you if you would consider playing my brother in Death of a Salesman
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and I said let me think it over. Yes! My inspiration is Ewell Brynner
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When I was a young man I saw The Ten Commandments starring Ewell Brynner. He was Ramsey's
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the second and I learned from that film that every film after that at some point the director would pull the camera back and do
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a follow of Ewell Brynner from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen
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because of the way he swaggered and in The Ten Commandments he's wearing this gold skirt
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right and he's bare chested and he's good and I said that's how I'm gonna walk
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So when you see me on stage that inspiration came from Ewell Brynner
