The pair discuss their Emmy-nominated film, a 1960s-set love story that avoids images of Black trauma: 'Let's do a film that focuses on our humanity.'
NNAMDI ASOMUGHA
How did shooting a New York-set film in L.A. help evoke that romantic, stylized look of classic Hollywood productions?Originally, we were going to shoot in upstate New York. There are neighborhoods that look like Harlem, have a bunch of brownstones. [But] Tessa [only] had February available. You can’t shoot a movie set in the summer in New York in February. We needed to shoot in Los Angeles. Nnamdi was like, “I just don’t see how that’s going to work.
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