'Antebellum' star Janelle Monáe explains the thriller's ending, as well as her motivation for signing on to a story depicting the horrors of slavery.
Lionsgate’s “Antebellum,” a psychological horror film about a Black woman forced into modern day chattel slavery, ends with its heroine, Veronica Eden , riding triumphantly out of the Civil War reenactment park where she’d been held against her will.
“Like everybody, I’ve watched movies [about] slavery, but this wasn’t a slave movie,” she said. “It is more nuanced and layered and does a few things that make it more of a psychological thriller. And after reading the ending, I was like, ‘Yes, this is not a white savior film.’ There was triumph on the page, and that’s what I wanted to see. If I’m showing up to see a film that touches on slavery, I want it to have an ending that would leave me standing up and feeling victorious, not defeated.
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