Watch ‘American Fiction’ Director Cord Jefferson Talk About His Cast in New Featurette: ‘I’m Forever Grateful for That’ | Exclusive

Everybody is talking about “American Fiction.”

The debut feature from writer/director Cord Jefferson, an Emmy winner for his work on HBO’s “Watchmen,” “American Fiction” stars Jeffrey Wright as a college professor who is juggling a family that is barely keeping it together with a literary prank that goes horribly (or is that wonderfully?) awry. And you can learn more about the movie (which won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festvial) thanks to a new featurette that you can watch above.

“When I started writing this movie it was just a script and a dream and that was it.