David Oyelowo will soon be seen starring in “Sweet Thunder”, an upcoming big-screen biopic about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, and he was promoting the film Wednesday at TIFF.
The film was directed by Nate Parker, whose history at TIFF is somewhat fraught given that the last time he was at the Toronto film fest to promote “Birth of a Nation” in 2016, Oscar buzz for the film turned to controversy when rape allegations made in 1999 against Parker and 1999 rape allegation that was made against Parker and the film’s co-writer, Jean McGianni Celestin, resurfaced.
While Parker was acquitted and Celestin’s conviction was overturned on appeal (their accuser took her own life in 2012), the controversy succeeded in overshadowing the movie.
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