'By having Black creatives at the top...we can tell the history of Candyman and allow that to be as horrifying as when you only remember him as a villain' - on the HollywoodRemixed podcast, Yahya explains the importance of Black leadership Listen:
Abdul-Mateen, who studied architecture at UC Berkeley and worked as a city planner before becoming an actor, also spoke at length about the filmmakers’ decision to set theirspiritual sequel in a gentrified Cabrini-Green. “The act of gentrification is also an act of systemic violence that’s about displacement of an entire people,” he explains.
“If Black people are supposedly so strong and so capable, then having a killer kill them off first means, ‘This bad guy is really tough,'” Newby explains. “But also, any white people that survive them are in some ways superior. And so we see that so many times with the white Final Girl: ‘Well, if this killer could kill a Black guy and the white Final Girl survives, then here’s a tip of the hat to whiteness.
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