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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award and Tony Award winner known for his roles on stage and screen. He has frequently portrayed forceful, militant, and authoritative characters. Some of Fishburne's best-known roles are Morpheus in The Matrix series (1999–2003), Jason "Furious" Styles in the John Singleton drama film Boyz n the Hood (1991), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now (1979), and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick film series (2017–present). For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello on film when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. He has also received five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination for his performance in Deep Cover (1992). Other film credits of Fishburne include Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990), Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying (2017). He has also gained a wider audience with the blockbuster films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). On television, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008–2011) and as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal (2013–2015), and had a recurring role as Earl "Pops" Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022).
Laurence Fishburne
Takeshi Ooi
for Takeshi Ooi in Death Note
Suggested by anonymoussybnoxious1
So it's been a long time since I heard the Duffer Brothers are going to be remaking the Death Note series in Live Action. Which got me excited but also nervous at the same time since the movie got worse in the US and shows disrespect to the anime. And I hope to God that the Netflix Series of Death Note gets better than the movie, and not to fall for that same mistake again. Although by any means, I'm not going to recast the Asians, I would instead recast the US version. Something better than the movie, and even more better than the Duffer Brothers. It's something like how Light Yagami was much more of a loner in a school and felt so dull, that even later before the notebook "Death Note" came along falling out of the sky, he uses it to kill someone for the crimes they have committed after finding out that it was real and uses it as a revenge or justice to become the new God. And I want this series to build up as a climax, a rising action, and a moral of this story. So with that being said, let's recast Death Note.
