One of the old soldiers in Spike Lee's Da5Bloods is a hardline Trump supporter: 'There are a small minority of black folks who drank the orange Kool-Aid,' Lee tells breznican. 'To make him more dramatic, Paul is a MAGA-hat-wearing motherfucker'
patriotic! And this great, great country has not really made its promise yet to people of color.”
Trump plays an unexpected background role in the film. Lindo’s character, the abrasive, domineering Paul, shocks his old friends by revealing he’s a supporter. “It’s something that my mother taught me very early on,” the filmmaker explained. “She’d say, ‘Spike, all black people ain’t the same. All black people don’t look alike, or think alike.’ So we’ve got this group, and I had to show some type of diversity amongst these African American men.
Paul’s politics shock and disorient his old friends. Lewis’s Eddie is the rich one of the bunch, his fortune having underwritten their overseas reunion. Whitlock’s Melvin is the sweetheart of the team, the fun-loving jokester. Peters’s Otis is the quiet one, the introspective de facto leader. He’s also perhaps the most stable. “You know why that is? Because he was a medic,” Lee said. “As he says, he took several bullets out of Paul’s black ass.
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