'True story,' 'Selma' director Ava DuVernay chimed in.
"Selma coincided with Eric Garner being murdered," Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the biopic, said during a recent edition ofdramatized the events surrounding King's 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in a fight to secure equal voting rights for African Americans. “I remember at the premiere ofus wearing ‘I Can’t Breathe’ t-shirts in protest," the actor continued.
DuVernay confirmed Oyelowo's account in a tweet that read, "True story." A rep for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.
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