When it comes to youth, legendary Hollywood star Morgan Freeman (83 years), who has a singularly rich voice as an inspiring narrator who lends a special splendor to all his contributions, does not hesitate to support the 27-year-old rapper who asked him for a voice role on his album. the new.

In an interview with GQ, Freeman explained his sudden vocal appearance - from his home and on his mobile phone - on the album released by British rapper "21 Savage" last October, saying, "I am tired of it." Playing the role of a nice guy, it is a kind of confinement in a specific form, "citing stars that this happened to them, including Henry Fonda, Spencer Tracy, and James Stewart.

He added, "I went ahead in supporting the youth, after I read the copy and found wisdom in it that you should do what you see fit and do not care about fools."

Freeman's new appearance prompts us to return to trace the diversity and richness of the performance of this artist, who carried a young spirit throughout his artistic journey.

The greatest American actor

Freeman grabbed his first Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for his role in the 1987 movie "Street Smart", which American critic Roger Ebert described as "a smart thriller that contains many breathtaking scenes. Morgan Freeman played the role." Brighter, make him appear charming or frightening, depending on the situation. "

A performance that prompted the Newyorker film critic, Pauline Kayle, to ask, "Is Morgan Freeman going to be the greatest American actor?"

Freeman appeared as a strong pimp (Fast Black) who mastered manipulation, threatening with terrible violence and then retreating to smiles and reconciliations, in front of Kathy Baker (Bunchy) the girl who falls under his control, and lives by the rules of the street, but still has feelings, and Christopher Reeve (Jonathan Fisher) The journalist whose ambition drives him to fame, to invent a fictional story about a pimp of color, which causes a sensation and results in the trial of Fast Black for murder, ignites events.

He likes to be eclectic

Freeman, who "likes to be selective and is narrow with fixed molds," he says, continued to diversify roles in one of his golden years 1989, the year in which Peter Rainer, art editor for the Los Angeles Times (LAtimes.com), described Freeman's performance as " One of the strongest reasons for going to the movies is that his magic is that just being there makes us go. "

Then we saw Freeman's transition from a pimp to a resolute manager in Lean on Me, then a skeptical detective of Johnny Handsome.

And from him to the fierce military in "Glory", and then in the role of the American President in "Deep Impact".

He starred in the role of chauffeur Hook Colburn opposite superstar Jessica Tandy in "Driving Miss Daisy", a role full of love and patience that won him the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards.

And he appeared to be very precise, whether in body language, tone of voice, or eye gaze during the stages of building a complex human relationship between two untouchable people united by their stubborn self-esteem, the conservative "Jewish" Daisy Wirth, and the "nigger" hook, the driver who hired her son in order not to destroy the neighbors' flowers in her car. .

Rise to fulfill his dream

By the 1990s, we see Freeman as the great warrior in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).

Then, in the role of the elderly cowboy in Unforgiven (1992), as the police investigator in Se7en (1995), and the slave advocating the abolition of the death penalty in Amistad in 1997.

Freeman won his third Oscar nomination, with the quiet narrator voice as prisoner Ellis Boyd Reading in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

In an attempt to understand the value of Freeman, the legendary Oscar-winning star and 63 other awards, in addition to 79 nominations, it suffices to see him in 3 sessions of parole after 20, 30 and 40 years, where he begins to tell his tragic story, and ends with the liberation of his soul and his rejection of the idea of ​​rehabilitation, so that the Council will release him.

Before achieving his dream of winning an Oscar, Freeman appeared in the dress of research and development expert Lucius Fox, with director Christopher Nolan in 3 icons, namely "Batman Begins" (2005) and "The Dark Knight" (2008) ), And then "The Dark Knight Rises" in 2012.

He excelled in his role as a dying cancer patient in The Bucket List 2007, and the role of Nelson Mandela in "Invictus" 2009, and a former CIA agent, in the movie "RED" 2010, right up to His role in the friends comedy "Last Vegas" 2013, and finally the role of a high-ranking American politician in the thriller films "Olympus Has Fallen" 2013, "London has fallen" (2016), and Angel Has Fallen 2019.

As for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, Freeman snatched it for his brilliant creativity in the role of elderly ex-boxer Eddie Scrap with Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank in "Million Dollar Baby" in 2004.

It's the immense emotional energy that Freeman brings to events when he is the narrator.

And we see this old, old boxer supporting the young girl Maggie (Hilary Swank) who has been working as a waitress since she was 13 years old, thinks she can be a boxer, and sees boxing as the only way she can escape misery for the rest of her life.