Rosario Dawson explores life as a cancer patient in ‘The Water Man’ (video)
David Oyelowo and Rosario Dawson in
The Water Man. (Photo credit: Karen Ballard)
In her role in the new fantasy-driven film
The Water Man, Rosario Dawson portrays a mother who is dying from leukemia while trying to hold her family together. The film also stars the brilliant David Oyelowo as her husband and Lonnie Chavis (“This Is Us”) as the couple’s young son.
The Water Man, which opens in theaters Friday, May 7, 2021, is Oyelowo’s directorial debut.
In
The Water Man, your character, Mary, is dealing with leukemia and walking through her terminal illness with her young son.
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For his first feature in a directorial capacity, British actor David Oyelowo, working from Emily A. Needell’s screenplay, embarked on a fantastical adventure fueled by real-world tribulations. The end result, “The Water Man,” while not altogether graceless, registers as tonally disjointed and ultimately inconsequential in spite of its star-fronted cast.
New in a small American town, Gunner (Lonnie Chavis), an imaginative teenage boy working on an intriguing graphic novel, learns his mother (a stupendous Rosario Dawson) is battling leukemia. Amos, the family’s military patriarch (Oyelowo in an adequate role), finds his son’s interests odd, thus their communication suffers.
For his first feature in a directorial capacity, British actor David Oyelowo, working from Emily A. Needell’s screenplay, embarked on a fantastical adventure fueled by real-world tribulations. The end result, “The Water Man,” while not altogether graceless, registers as tonally disjointed and ultimately inconsequential in spite of its star-fronted cast.
New in a small American town, Gunner (Lonnie Chavis), an imaginative teenage boy working on an intriguing graphic novel, learns his mother (a stupendous Rosario Dawson) is battling leukemia. Amos, the family’s military patriarch (Oyelowo in an adequate role), finds his son’s interests odd, thus their communication suffers.
David Oyelowo Fights for Representation in Family Films
The actor turned to directing after an eye-opening discussion with his son. He realized he couldn’t rely on Hollywood to find stories he wanted to tell.
David Oyelowo has taken a larger role behind the scenes to get projects made that reflect the complexities of people of color: “My job, I feel, is to normalize my existence,” he said.Credit.Michael Tyrone Delaney for The New York Times
May 5, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
The actor David Oyelowo’s journey into the director’s chair took 20 years and one critical conversation with his oldest son.