SHORT TAKES : Freeman on Campaign to ‘Heal’
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NEW YORK — Morgan Freeman wanted to be a movie star when he was a kid. Now that he is, Freeman says, things have changed.
“Stardom is nothing,” the actor says in this Sunday’s Parade magazine. “I decided I want to be a force, a catalyst. I want to change people’s attitudes. I want to make movies that heal, that mend us.”
Freeman, the star of “Lean on Me” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” says he chooses roles that will educate people.
“I’m not a social do-gooder, but I find myself more and more a campaigner,” he says. “I want to change people’s attitudes about black people, about us as Americans.
“I want to give us a better historical perspective of ourselves which will make us get along better.”
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