Catholic Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The motion picture The Forgiven was released in theaters March 9 with an expanded release on March 16 that includes video on demand and digital HD. The movie, from Saban Films, stars Forest Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The plot, a blend of fact and fiction, focuses on what happens after ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of South Africa's most prominent human rights activists, has been honoured in Cape Town with a lasting monument to his legacy of democracy and peace. The Arch is a lasting monument to Archbishop Desmond Tutu's legacy. Photo by David Southwood. Desmond Tutu is ...

LOS ANGELES - Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has confessed that he breathed a sigh of relief after Desmond Tutu approved of his portrayal in drama film The Forgiven. The 56-year-old actor plays the iconic religious leader and civil rights activist in the drama film The Forgiven, and he's admitted to ...

The Arch was first unveiled for Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 86th birthday on October 7, 2017. A second, smaller version of the Arch was also erected on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, near the Constitutional Court, on December 10th honoring the 21st anniversary of the signing of the South African ...

The Forgiven, directed by Roland Joffe and based on the Michael Ashton novel The Archbishop and the Antichrist, stars Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker in the role of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The story takes place during following the first all-inclusive elections that punctuated the end of ...

In an open letter last year, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a fellow Nobel laureate, described her as “a dearly beloved younger sister” whose photograph he had long kept on his desk. “My dear sister: If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too ...

South African author Ishtiyaq Shukri has lashed out at Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu over his decision last month to step down as an ambassador for international aid organisation Oxfam in the wake of a sex scandal. Shukri lambasted Tutu for not speaking out against sex abuses in the Anglican ...

The Forgiven is based on screenwriter Michael Ashton's play The Archbishop and the Antichrist — and its origin really shows. Every time Forest Whitaker's hopeful, God-fearing Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a sit-down with Eric Bana's incarcerated, racist, death-squad assassin Piet Blomfield, in lengthy, ...

Actor Forest Whitaker won an Oscar in 2007 for “The Last King of Scotland” and stars in the current box-office hit “Black Panther.” Now he plays Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the upcoming film “The Forgiven.” He tells Kathie Lee and Hoda that he once met with the real-life Tutu, who told him, “without ...

Fans slam Forest Whitaker's accent in new Desmond Tutu film. Updated March 5, 2018, 3:27 p.m. | By East Coast Drive. Share this: Following the recent growth of the South African TV and film industry, we pat our backs proudly to have showcased our country to the world, but with this kind of growth, should acting roles not ...

After several years in production, a film based on Desmond Tutu, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will finally see the light of day, but fans are not impressed. The movie, entitled The Forgiven, will screen in America this week and imagines a meeting between Tutu and prisoner Piet Blomfield ...

Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker will be the leading act in an intense thriller based on the juvenile events that occurred during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Photo: eNCA/Khumo Pulumo. JOHANNESBURG - Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker will play Archbishop ...

WATCH: Forest Whitaker to star as Desmond Tutu in thriller. Life; Friday 2 March 2018 - 6:41pm. Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker will be the leading act in an intense thriller based on the juvenile events that occurred during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Photo: eNCA/Khumo Pulumo.

With just two weeks to go until its release, Saban Films has debuted a new trailer for director Roland Joffe's upcoming thriller The Forgiven. Based on the play The Archbishop and the Antichrist by Michael Ashton, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu alongside Eric Bana, Jeff Gum, ...

THE Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Dr Desmond Tutu, announced on Thursday that he would retire as an ambassador for Oxfam, because of “allegations of immorality and possible criminality” involving the charity's aid workers. The widening crisis over allegations of sexual abuse in the aid sector has ...

In Marvel's "Black Panther," Forest Whitaker plays Zuri, the spiritual leader of Wakanda who gives and takes the power of the Black Panther through various sacred rituals. In a similarly noble role, Whitaker gives power to the people in his portrayal of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Roland ...

In 'The Forgiven,' when Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker) is appointed to head a nationwide investigation, he's summoned to a maximum-security prison by a notorious murderer seeking clemency (Eric Bana). Inside the brutal prison walls, Tutu is drawn into a dangerous, life-changing battle with ...

Cape Town - City Press reported in 2016 that Forest Whitaker will be playing Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in a new film. Saban Films has released a trailer for the upcoming film. The Forgiven, based on a play by Michael Asthon The Archbishop and The Antichrist, follows Tutu's (Whitaker) work as ...