Why was Morgan Freeman carrying a single black glove at Oscars 2025? | Hollywood

Why was Morgan Freeman carrying a single glove?

Again in 2008, Freeman was concerned in a automotive crash. The actor swerved off a Mississippi street and flipped over on the time. Emergency providers needed to reduce him free, and his left arm was badly injured within the accident.

On the time, a neighborhood newspaper editor mentioned, in keeping with LADbible, “They’d to make use of the jaws of life [hydraulic cutters] to extract him from the automobile. He was lucid, acutely aware. He was speaking, joking with a number of the rescue employees at one level.”

Freeman was reportedly informed that the ache would ultimately subside and he would see enchancment by 2011. Nonetheless, he’s sadly nonetheless unable to correctly use his hand. The actor wears a compression glove to maintain the blood flowing.

Freeman beforehand reportedly mentioned in regards to the harm, “I suffered nerve injury and it hasn’t gotten higher. I am unable to transfer it.”

“In case you do not transfer your hand, it is going to swell up. Are you aware you progress your hand about one million occasions a day?” he added.

Freeman skilled ache in his injured arm throughout an interview with Esquire some years in the past. On being requested about it, the actor reportedly informed the reporter, “It is the fibromyalgia. Up and down the arm. That is the place it will get so unhealthy. Excruciating.”

In the meantime, on the 2025 Oscars, Freeman remembered his late co-star Hackman, who was lately discovered lifeless alongside his spouse Betsy Arakawa and their canine. Hackman and Freeman starred collectively in Unforgiven in 1992 and Below Suspicion in 2000.

“This week our neighborhood misplaced a large, and I misplaced a pricey pal, Gene Hackman,” Freeman mentioned. “He acquired two Oscars and extra importantly he gained the hearts of movie lovers all around the world.”