denzel washington starring as walter lee younger, sophie okonedo as ruth, latanya richardson jackson who plays lena younger, the family matriarch. i am pleased to have them at this table to talk about a remarkable play and what it means then when she wrote it and what it means today. welcome. >> thank you. >> charlie: tell me what brought you back to this play at this time. >> kenny leon the director and i had great success four years ago and the day we closed, he said, what are we doing? i said, i'm going home, i'm going on vacation. >> and you got the tony. the man gets the award... (laughter) two years later we started talking and talked about a lot of other plays. we didn't talk about this play at all. he didn't want to do it because he had just done it. he said, no, that's been ten years. i didn't realize it was that long, so we actually talked about ice man comet, king headily, and then he brought it up and here we are. >> charlie: because he had done it. >> yes. >> charlie: and he asked you to do it. >> i said, no. my daughter was at her senior year at vassar and there was a l

sophie okonedo plays his wife. and latanya richardson jackson plays lena younger, the family matriarch. i am very pleased to have them at this table, to talk about a remarkable play and what it means then, when she wrote it, and today. welcome. tell me what brought you back to this play at this time. , the director and i, had great success with " four years ago. the day the play closed, what are we doing next? i am going on vacation. a man gets the award. i do not know. two years later or something, we started talking. we talked about other plays, not this play at all. i figured he did not want to do it, because he had just done it. he said, it has been 10 years. we had talked about "iceman cometh." then, he brought it up. i am like, really? and here we are. >> because he had done it. >> i did not realize it was 10 years already. >> he asked you to do it at that time. >> my daughter, it was her senior year at vassar, and there was a lot going on. i felt as though i had given up a lot to get her to this point will s