Looking to win over the hearts of award voters and audiences in general, the second trailer for Denzel Washington's adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences has arrived online.
Wilson himself adapted the play, which tackles the story of Troy Maxon (Washington), a Pittsburgh sanitation employee who once dreamed of a baseball career only to be left facing down daily discrimination in a more menial line of work, while grappling with his lost ambitions. Viola Davis, who won a Tony alongside Washington for her performance in the play, is Troy's wife, Rose. She supports her husband, but is painfully aware of what she also gave up.
As well as the actors' stage success, the play took the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Revival, and from the looks of the footage, we can expect typically powerful performances from the leads and the supporting cast, which includes Russell Hornsby, Jovan Adepo and Mykelti Williamson. Fences will arrive in the UK in February following a Christmas Day release in the US.
See Denzel Washington, Viola Davis and more in the first Fences images