?" I saw it as an opportunity to have this discussion that I think Black folks have been having since way before that night, and are still having now:"What, if any, social responsibility does the Black artist, singer or athlete have to his or her people?" And then translating it into a film? I didn't even want to option it, but the play hit walls and people didn't want to produce it because it wasn't"viable.
Sam, how did you decide to focus on a couple dealing with relationship problems while working in the same field?I knew it had to be a movie that took place in one location with two actors, just for safety reasons, and I wanted it to be a relationship piece, so I thought,"What's a terrible thing that someone can do to their partner? Well, they could forget to thank them at the premiere of their film." Which is something that happened to me.
One of the hot-button debates in this industry is about who can or should tell which stories. We saw it with Oscar winner, a film written and directed by white people that dealt with race in a way that some found problematic. More recently, there's been back and forth about an upcoming biopic about the Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang after it was announced that Ron Howard was going to direct it.
Sam, did the fact that you, a white man, would be telling a story with two protagonists of color give you pause?When I sat down to write this, I knew I was writing for [Zendaya]. And then I had to think about,"Who can go toe-to-toe with Z?" Because she's such a formidable force, I can't have someone who's got, like, a boyish sensibility, because she would snap that person like a twig. And so the only person I could think of was John David Washington. I knew his work.
It was a 12-week writing assignment that turned into several years of my life. This is a really complex issue. Of course, the internet and social media are always going to take things to the point of extreme outrage. If you listen to them, then I, and most Black filmmakers, aren't even"Black enough" to do"Black movies." To me, what's important is that there are just opportunities created.
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RadhaMUSprime Isn’t this the same person who “stole” the title of her movie from The 40 Year Virgin and claimed Apatow was doing cultural appropriation?
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Sigh ... they were 8 (then Seven) assholes. That's the tweet