The co-star Morgan Freeman had been dying to work with since 1983

The co-star Morgan Freeman had been dying to work with since 1983

The bigger the star, the more likely they are to be given the leeway to handpick their co-stars. Morgan Freeman wasn’t quite in that bracket, though, so he had to bide his time patiently instead. People like Denzel Washington have the clout to approve their colleagues, as Angelina Jolie discovered back in the late 1990s, but the shoe has frequently been on the other foot with Freeman, not that it’s held him back, since one phone call from Clint …