“Selma,” the movie about the famed march by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists, opens in selected theaters on December 25th and nationwide on January 9th, but already the cast of the show is living up to expectations, following in the footsteps of the man and the movement the show is based on – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Following the lead of the civil rights activist and more recently professional athletes like LeBron James and Andrew Hawkins, the cast of “Selma” wore the I Can’t Breathe t-shirt at the premier if the movie. “I can’t breathe,” were the last words spoken by Eric Garner, as he was choked to death by a New York police officer.
The photo is striking: David Oyelowo, who plays Martin Luther King Jr. in the film, stands in front of a crowd that includes director Ava DuVernay and co-stars Lorraine Toussaint, Wendell Pierce, André Holland, Tessa Thompson, Omar Dorsey, and more. Many of them play King’s fellow activists, the people who joined him in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to plan what eventually became the famous march from Selma to Montgomery.
