By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nate Parker, director and star of the new slavery drama "The Birth of a Nation," said he would not apologise over a 17-year-old rape accusation that has hijacked attention from a film once tipped as an Oscar front-runner. Parker, 36, noted to Anderson Cooper in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday on CBS News' "60 Minutes," that he was acquitted of rape in a 2001 trial, and he asked people to look beyond the incident and focus on his movie. The film tells the story of preacher Nat Turner, played by Parker, who in 1831 led a slave rebellion in Virginia.
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