Forest Whitaker Finds Joy In The Music Of 'Jingle Jangle'

Forest Whitaker shows off his musical chops in the new Netflix musical "Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey."

The Academy Award winner stars as Jeronicus Jangle, a genius toymaker who rediscovers his love for the craft after his assistant steals his inventions and his family falls apart. Whitaker says he felt drawn to writer and director David Talbert’s passion for the story.

“Honestly, it was an opportunity to do a project that really had a lot of depth. And it was exploring falling down, losing everything,” he says. “And then through recovering your family and yourself, being able to live again, to find joy again, to make people believe in joy again.”