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. Of the group, Bravo, Keough and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris recall first catching onto the tweets when they were posted in 2015.
“I mostly wanted to make sure that the thing that would translate from what A’Ziah had written, was her voice,” Bravo said. “The biggest challenge in writing and directing and putting the whole thing together was to make sure that what I had fallen in love with and what everyone here had fallen in love with, which was the original source material … [that] we would be able to live up to it.”
“When she was auditioning for this, she was coming up showing like, ‘Here’s every thread that they were ever in. Here’s all these articles about the thing. Here’s every piece of clothing that every character should be wearing in the movie. She wanted to rewrite the movie and yet she already had designed for the movie as it was written. She had lighting designs, gesture designs,” Harris recalled. “And I was like, ‘Janicza, you’re doing too much work for this movie and you still haven’t gotten it.
Paige recognized she’d need a similar tenacity to embody the take-no-prisoners protagonist Zola. And to do so, she required an attitude adjustment.
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