Showing posts with label Forrest Goodluck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forrest Goodluck. Show all posts

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Forrest Goodluck: the Native American actor ripping up the rulebook; The Guardian, August 23, 2018

Amy Nicholson, The Guardian; Forrest Goodluck: the Native American actor ripping up the rulebook

"Not bad for a boy from Albuquerque, New Mexico who started his career on an inauspicious stage. In fifth grade, Goodluck spent a month writing down every line in A Charlie Brown Christmas so he could direct it at his small school, a former mental hospital with two dingy spotlights in the basement and a stack of rusty metal folding chairs. “I didn’t know about copyright,” says Goodluck, but he did have a beagle who could play Snoopy. His Charlie Brown dropped out a week before the show, so Goodluck stepped into the lead role."