'You've heard hints of the story, people have mentioned it in passing, but you don't really understand why it's important. This was the beginning of something.'
"We tried to fund it ourselves, we've tried to do a lot to get this story out there because... this should be the 10th of the stories on this subject [and] about this family. There should be hundreds of stories that tell this: for little kids, for [all ages]. This is the first feature film, ever. And it is trying to get people to recognize why we have to protect this. We have to protect this story.
Simeon Wright, Emmett's cousin and an eyewitness of the event served as a consultant to the project until he died in 2017.You've heard hints of the story, people have mentioned it in passing, but you don't really understand why it's important. This was the beginning of something," she shared.
"It's important because once this happens to our set of kids, then it happens to the next set of kids, and then it happens to the next set of kids," Whoopi added."So, I wanted people to see the start of people saying enough is enough because that's when it began.
"He's been trying for a long time to get people to recognize this as a big part of American history that we need to address," Whoopi explained."Now, we may not be able to fix it, but you damn sure can't ignore it now. This is, for us, I think our. This tells everyone what happened. It's not a made-up story, it's just the facts. This is what went down, and this is how it went down, and this is why it went down.
As one of the producers behind the film, Whoopi shared that she's looking forward to bringing more untold stories of Black history makers to the big screen."I'm relieved because it would be terrible if we were in year 15, still trying to get this done. We've seen so many stories that haven't been able to get told correctly, or at all," she said."And now I'm greedy, so I'm looking for other stuff.
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