Cinematographer Rachel Morrison, known for her work on 'Mudbound' and 'Black Panther,' directs 'The Fire Inside,' a biopic about boxer Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields. The film, based on a script by Barry Jenkins, explores Shields' journey to the 2012 Summer Olympics in a predominantly male sport. Morrison, who identifies with Shields' experience as a woman in a male-dominated field, saw the film as an opportunity to tell a story about resilience and determination.
Morrison cemented herself as a force with her work on films including Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station and the 2015 dark comedy Dope. She became the first woman ever nominated for the best-cinematography Oscar for Dee Rees’s 2017 film Mudbound, before reuniting with Coogler for Marvel’s Black Panther the next year. But after all that success, Morrison realized the type of film she loved was going extinct in Hollywood. “I got to the target too late.
“Then from a directing standpoint, I really tried to take all the things I had seen work and infuse my directing sensibility with those—and try not to repeat the mistakes that I’d witnessed often from inside the court,” she says. From Coogler, she learned to get close to her actors, often taking a knee beside them on set rather than staying behind a monitor. “She’s someone that gave me a very human aspect of being a director, which is something I wasn’t really used to.
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