King of New York (1990)
King of New York is Abel Ferrara's 1990 American crime film. The work is one of the principal independent crime films of the early 1990s and one of the strongest Walken lead performances of his substantial filmography.
Actor: Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to be cast in Apocalypse Now and was fourteen when shooting began, spending more than a year in the Philippines on that production.
He was nominated for Best Actor for What’s Love Got to Do with It, playing Ike Turner, and has said he took the role reluctantly.
Morpheus in The Matrix is the performance most people know, delivered with a formality that makes the exposition sound like scripture, which is exactly what the film needs.
Boyz n the Hood and Deep Cover are the essential earlier work, and he won a Tony for August Wilson’s Two Trains Running.
