Wu-Tang Clan's rich and tumultuous history is chronicled in a new Hulu dramatic series and in an Emmy-nominated documentary.
If someone had told rapper Raekwon the Chef back in the ’90s that his group Wu-Tang Clan would one day have a Staten Island street named after it, or be the subject of an Emmy-nominated documentary, or the focus of a 10-part dramatic series, “I would have looked at them like they were [completely] crazy.”And yet, here we are. The street was dedicated in May; director Sacha Jenkins’ doc, “Of Mics and Men,” is poised for that Emmy, and on Wednesday, “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” debuts on Hulu.
It’s been a tumultuous history. The group’s debut, “Enter the Wu-Tang ,” released in 1993, was a “failure,” RZA said; internal strife, Wu-Tang’s seemingly constant companion, has taken its toll throughout the years. “And I realized I had to be the torchbearer,” he said. “I thought about what would be the best way to express the Wu, the best way for story to exist and the best partners, before I chose Sacha to make the doc.
“It’s not ‘Inglourious Basterds,’” he added, referring to Quentin Tarantino’s alternative history version of World War II. “ The starting point and destination are truthful. We’re not changing the end results. But in making the drive more interesting we had to make some lefts and rights.” “That’s exactly how we were talking about them,” said Beatrice Springborn, head of original programming at Hulu. Springborn, who has been closely associated with bringing such women-centric programming as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Mindy Project” and “Little Fires Everywhere” to Hulu, said there were a number of reasons the project fit, beyond the mystique and the romance.
Sanders, however, has had his role model on set throughout. He said his process was more about absorption than scrutiny. RZA, who has acted, written, directed, produced and scored films and plays a zombie UPS driver in Jim Jarmusch’s latest , said he has no trouble watching himself be played on the set. “What gets me is post-production. Memories are triggered, nuances are happening, sometimes anxiety.”
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