Green Book' stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali detail their meticulous research into Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Dr. Don Shirley and explain why their characters' friendship evolves the way.

In 1956, Nat King Cole was performing in his home state of Alabama when he was attacked onstage by members of the Ku Klux Klan, who had been waiting in the all-white audience of 4,000. By that ...

No Best Picture contender has gotten more mud unfairly slung at it this Oscar season than Green Book ... virtuoso pianist Don Shirley, and Viggo Mortensen for playing Tony Lip, the Copacabana ...

Michael Kappeyne and John Scoulios were two young men who stumbled into musician Don ... Green Book as a “symphony of lies,” insisting the dynamic between Shirley and his driver Tony ...

Mortensen co-starred alongside Ali as Tony “Lip” Vallelonga ... called watching “Green Book” a “jarring” experience, while Don’s brother, Dr. Maurice Shirley, called it a ...

Mahershala Ali is OK in his book. The last living brother of prodigy pianist Dr. Don Shirley ... Mortensen as Tony Vallelonga and Mahershala Ali as Dr. Donald Shirley in “Green Book.” ...

Green Book co-writer and ... was Vallelonga's late father, Tony "Lip" Vallelonga, who drove the musician on a tour through the Deep South in the 1960s. "The Don Shirley family thing falls on ...

Vallelonga, 60, was the son of “Sopranos” actor Tony Lip ... Nick based “Green Book” on his father’s relationship with Black pianist Don Shirley, who hired Lip to be his bodyguard ...