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AFI Life Achievement winner Morgan Freeman: the faces of an actor

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By Susan King

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES _ Morgan Freeman is neighing like a horse recalling one of his earliest “acting” memories.

“I always was an actor,” said the 74-year-old who won the supporting actor Oscar for 2004′s “Million Dollar Baby.” “I didn’t become an actor, this is what I was meant to do. I remember an incident when I was 5 years old. I had a friend, and we used to play different kinds of games.”

One day in rural Mississippi, Freeman and his friend were playing horse and buggy. “What you do is that you get a clothes line and wrap it around yourself if you are the horse,” he said. “My friend was the driver, and we would go through the town. This lady, Mrs. Hackman, saw us running out there in the sun and said, ‘Why don’t you come in and drink some water?’”

Freeman never broke character. When she gave him a cup of water, Freeman stuck his head in the cup and drank like a horse, neighing between gulps. “She said ‘What in the world are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m a horse, Mrs. Hackman.’”

Over the decades, Freeman’s roles have become a bit more sophisticated. He’s played a vicious pimp in 1987′s “Street Smart” (his first supporting actor Oscar nomination), a devoted chauffeur for a Southern Jewish woman in 1989′s best picture winner, “Driving Miss Daisy” (lead actor nomination), a former boxer in “Million Dollar Baby” and South African President Nelson Mandela in 2009′s “Invictus” (lead actor nod).

His latest honor is the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Freeman becomes the second African American to receive the award; Sidney Poitier was the first, in 1992. The star-studded event will take place Thursday evening at Sony Pictures’ historical Stage 15, where “The Wizard of Oz” was shot, and will air June 19 on TV Land.

On a recent afternoon, Freeman was holding court in the library of the AFI Campus in Hollywood. He had just finished a question-and-answer session with students at the AFI with writer-director Edward Zwick, with whom he worked on the 1989 Civil War epic “Glory.” He’s wearing a therapy glove on his left hand, the only visible signs of the near-fatal car crash three years ago near Ruleville, Miss. He still can’t use the hand, but that hasn’t slowed his career.

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