Before They Were Stars: Morgan Freeman on “The Twilight Zone”

Yesterday, I posted a “Robin’s Underrated Gems” column on the 1987 thriller, Street Smart, where Morgan Freeman delivered what turned out to be his breakthrough performance as an evil pimp, garnering him his first Academy Award nomination and propelling him to the A-list. Two years beforehand, Freeman was still a relatively unknown character actor when he made a guest appearance on an episode of The Twilight Zone in a segment about a group of guys who play cards with a mysterious man whom they believe might be Satan. Yeah, all his hands turning out to be “6-6-6” might be a clue…

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