Aug 25, 2026
“The greatest sin an actor can commit is to fail to be interesting. I always try to make my characters interesting.” — Michael Wright | Quote of the Day
Michael Wright, the American actor who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at Venice for Streamers, broke hearts as Eddie King Jr. in The Five Heartbeats, and played the Resistance fighter Elias Taylor in V, on the one unforgivable failure in performance: being boring. His words are surging again as the world mourns his death at 70.