Morgan Freeman, actor: “Challenge yourself, it’s the only path that leads to growth”

The acclaimed actor from films like The Shawshank Redemption and Million Dollar Baby has given us great performances, along ...
Variety

Freeman finds inner Mandela

Morgan Freeman had a calming effect on Matt Damon while shooting “Invictus,” though Freeman had no idea at the time. Whenever Damon would feel a “crushing pressure” to get the facts of the film’s true ...
Dallas Observer

Not Much Truth, But Plenty of Reconciliation in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus

Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there’s this to savor about Invictus, a rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist sports movie: The film is ...
Globe Gazette

#18. "Invictus" (2009)

Following the fall of apartheid, newly elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) faces a South Africa that is racially and economically divided. Believing he can unite his countrymen through ...
The Root

‘Invictus:’ Just Short of Its Goal

This is a movie that should have worked. After all, it’s got all those crowd-pleasing, made-for-the-Oscars ingredients: Uplifting sports biopic showcasing a little known—and fascinating—piece of ...