In December 2020, Cord Jefferson sat down with the novel “Erasure,” by Percival Everett, and saw his life reflected back at him. “It was like someone had written down a Christmas gift for Cord,” he…
While distributor MGM declined to screen the film for trade journalists ahead of its premiere, it’s fair to say that the source material is rich, dense — and potentially controversial. The novel, for instance, features a book-within-a-book written by protagonist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison .
Should “American Fiction” land, Jefferson is positioned not merely to make his critique but to present a path forward. One of the most closely watched screenwriting talents in TV, Jefferson, a former journalist, has worked on shows including “Watchmen” , “Station Eleven” and “The Good Place.” And, on-set, Jefferson was hardly a remote ivory-tower figure. The first bit of the shoot, he says, was somewhat petrifying: “OK,” he thought at the time, “now I’m going to tell Jeffrey Wright how to act, despite the fact that I’ve never directed so much as a McDonald’s commercial? Where do I get off?” After what he calls “a rocky first couple of days” of nerves, Jefferson leaned on his collaborators. “Every department head that I met with I said, ‘There’s going to be a learning curve.
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