It wasn't just about capturing their narrative, it was also about capturing their hearts. Director Ava DuVernay explains how she went about truly getting to know the men of WhenTheySeeUs
wrote and directed all four episodes of “When They See Us,” the streaming limited series that pulls back the curtain on the five African American boys who came to be known as the Central Park Five before, during, and after their wrongful convictions. DuVernay didn’t grow up in New York in the late-1980s when they were arrested; she hails from Compton, Calif. What she saw at the time was media coverage that painted them in a narrow light, just as the rest of the world did.
For him, it was surprising that two men would use such old-fashioned methods — hand-saws and secretly moving through drains — in the 21st century, causing him to think of the show’s setting as being in a time-warp of sorts. “We have lots of people coming from different religious backgrounds,” says writer and co-executive producer, “which I think has been fascinating and helpful to really spell out the difference between religion and faith in our [show’s] world because we talk a lot about how June has a great deal of faith, but how religion has been co-opted by the power structure in our world.”
Such specificity has also been essential for Emmy-nominated writers including Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle , who deeply mined their own adolescent fears and insecurities, awkward experiences with crushes, getting their periods and coming-of-age sexually on “Pen15.” Erskine also naturally infused her character’s home life with elements from her mother’s Japanese culture.
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