“My Hope Was to Recontextualize the Way We View My Ancestors”: THR Presents the Key Creative Team Behind ‘The Underground Railroad’

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“My Hope Was to Recontextualize the Way We View My Ancestors”: THR Presents the Key Creative Team Behind ‘The Underground Railroad’
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‘THR Presents’ virtual screening + Q&A series with TheUndergroundRailroad's Barry Jenkins, James Laxton, Joi McMillon and Thuso Mbedu, who discuss what went into the making of the television series - presented by AmazonStudios

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This was Jenkins’ first time anchoring a longform production — one which was shot over 116 days. “It wasn’t like making 10 separate feature films,” he explains. “We definitely wanted to make a TV show. We wanted it to be episodic, especially because the book itself is episodic in nature.” Could it have been a feature? “I don’t think that would have been possible,” he says.

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