Swords, Sandals

Morgan Freeman was surprised that his dreadlocks kept hitting him in the face. Freeman, who’s seventy-nine, has been acting since he was in grade school, and in the course of his long career has played everything from a chauffeur, a pimp, and God (twice) to the voice of history, narrating Hillary Clinton’s introduction film at the D.N.C. None of these roles have involved more elaborate costumes—or, at least, more elaborate hair—than that of Ilderim, a rich Nubian, circa 30 A.D. Ilderim’s dreads reach practically to his elbows. Freeman shook them to show how they dance around in a breeze.