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“I’ve been passionate about telling authentic Black stories for my whole life, and sometimes to tell an authentic story we have to free ourselves from the shackles of traditional chronology,” says Parks, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her play, about taking a non-linear approach to telling the Aretha story.
Vance says that the odds against Aretha were so formidable, it’s a miracle she was able to rise to the top of her profession, much less wow parishioners in her father’s parish as an adolescent. “For me the story was a family of overcoming, [because] Aretha shouldn’t have made it—two children by the time she was 15, and couldn’t figure out her voice in New York City,” says the Emmy winning actor (“As we all do from our parents,” Vance adds, “[Aretha] took some of what they give to us and some of it hurts. But she was able to shake that mess off and keep singing and keep trying to find that voice.
“I think that whenever we are able to tell stories about women who make it a point and a duty to keep taking a step forward, and moving fear out of the way, no matter how many ‘no’s’ you may get in the pathway towards those things, I think it’s really important,” she says. “And I think Aretha did that over and over and over again… And there’s a lot of that in me.
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