Breaking Baz: Danielle Deadwyler Finds “Artistic Love” Working On ‘The Piano Lesson’ & Teases Possibility Of West End Stage Debut

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EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Deadwyler achieved  “artistic love” working with director Malcom Washington and his sibling John David Washington on the screen adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson. “I’m with these beautiful men,” she says. ”They’re like brothers to me.” Deadwyler, acclaimed for her portrait of heartbreak in the 2022 movie Till,  tells me that her own “beautiful family” upbringing informed how she sought work and “gives me great responsibility to connect to people who want to embolden me in my work and I them.” She is steadfast in finding such people. “I’ve had some really great experiences, this being one of them,” she says of The Piano Lesson, which Netflix will release into select cinemas Friday in the U.S.

and UK. The streamer will launch the film on its service November 22. RELATED: Contenders London Studio: Selena Gomez, Lupita Nyong’o, Zoe Saldaña & More However, Deadwyler laments that it’s “really hard to go do other stuff after you’ve had these kind of expressions of artistic love, and it happened so fast.

Six weeks on set with something that’s so rigorous and yet loving. That’s hard-pressed to find.” Actors often make eye-rolling declarations about how wonderful it was to work with such and such.

And more often than not, it’s just guff. But I witnessed firsthand during Telluride, the London Film Festival and at our own London Contenders, that when Deadwyler and the Washington family gathered, the love and friendship was genuine. RELATED: ‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: Denzel Washington Produces And His Family Brings New Life To August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Winning Stage Classic – Telluride Film Festival Plus, having been around her a lot during the past three years, I know