Following her Oscar nod for King Richard and celebrated lead turn in Origin, Ellis-Taylor is back in the awards race for Nickel Boys—and ready for the tough conversations that come with it.
RaMell Ross’s striking adaptation of Colson Whitehead ’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, which draws from the true story of the abusive reformatory Dozier School in Jim Crow–era Florida, confronts a brutal chapter in American history through a radical first-person filmic POV. Ellis-Taylor plays one student’s grandmother, Hattie, who’s struggling to bring him back home. In increasingly devastating scenes, she breaks painful news while looking direct to camera.
Why should we have that expectation, after witnessing something so brutal that happened to children—why do we think we should feel good? Shouldn’t we feel a little bit of what these children and their families felt? What I mean by hope is, we talk about it. We find out more about what happened to those children. We find out that, “Okay, that didn’t just happen at the Dozier School, it happened at other reform schools all around the country.
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