Tracy Morgan attends ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ finale with cast

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Actor Tracy Morgan attended the FX Network's screening of "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" Wednesday at the AMC Empire 25 theater.

Tracy Morgan, who was among the many celebrities at FX's screening of its final episode of “The People v. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story,” recently told the Daily News how grateful he is to be alive and working.
“I’m here period," he said. "Trying to make the best of it, just trying to make the world a better place than when I got here.”
Morgan, 47, was critically injured in June 2014 when an 18-wheeler hit the limo he was riding in.
“Sometimes to this day I still can’t believe it actually happened,” his wife, Megan Wollover, told The News. “When I see him now living day to day, or he has an event. Yesterday he was on Seth Meyers and just watching him, (and thinking), ‘Did that really happen?’ But we still have things personally that we deal with, but he's just a miracle.”

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He also said he has an upcoming show with FX.
The series “isn't in production yet,” Morgan said. “We’re still getting it together but it's going to be awesome. I’m dealing with some really creative people, it’s great. I can’t wait to start filming it at home.”
Morgan was just one of the famous faces who turned up to the FX screening Wednesday night in Manhattan.

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Jeffrey Toobin, writer of “The People v. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story,” is still outraged over the verdict in the case.

The writer of “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” Jeffrey Toobin, said he's not surprised by how buzzy the series has become.
“I didn’t know but when they started production, I was on the set and I saw the quality of the scripts and of the actors, it really hasn’t surprised me, especially when I knew how obsessed the public was with this case,” he said.
What continues to shock him, though, is the verdict.

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Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. played O.J. Simpson in "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story." 

“To this day I am appalled that he was acquitted,” Toobin said.
Toobin said the series allowed the public to have a greater understanding of the nuances of the case, and of Marcia Clark, who was the lead prosecutor in the case.

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Actor Courtney B. Vance played defense attorney Courtney B. Vance in the series.

“One of the great contributions of the series is to give viewers the complexity of Marcia Clark,” Toobin said. “Someone who was largely viewed as a cardboard figure, you see the stresses, you see the sexism, the outright discrimination she faced, and I think that's a wonderful contribution to the historical record.”
It’s a record that actors Cuba Gooding Jr., and Courtney B. Vance tap into as they portrayed Simpson and his lead attorney, Johnnie Cochran.
Gooding said he tried to look like the former football player and current inmate.
“I mean that's my job as an actor to get as much as that,” Gooding said. “But here's the deal, here's the truth of it and I will pick on this series one more time. It's a wonderful series, this ‘Narcos’ series on Netflix, but I was upset every time they cut from the actor portraying Escobar to real images of Pablo Escobar because every time they did that I was reminded that he was an actor.”
“But if you (white reporter) played Cuba Gooding Jr., in a movie people would laugh,” Gooding continued. "But if you were brilliant in bringing the truth out I would start to see your image of him and that’s my job to bring an emotional truth.”
Vance also found his emotional truth as the rhyming lawyer — once he was in full costume.
“Not until I put the wig on,” did it all click, he said. “Then I felt like him.”
Cochran, Vance said, was “doing what he had to do. Doing what any defense lawyer would do and does and do.”