'I walk on set like I walk on the court. You're the point guard. You're the general.' GPBmadeit opens up about the 'guttural connection' she had to TheWomanKing, and why she needed those action scenes to feel as real as possible.
, which translated her experiences as a basketball obsessive who ran track at UCLA into a years-spanning love story between two ball players played by Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. She acknowledges that there’s a direct through-line from that film toin the way she wanted to reframe what femininity is, highlighting women who are beautiful in their athleticism. “What I love so much about the reaction tois that Monica is an ideal to so many men now, and I was never anybody’s ideal,” she says.
In the script by Dana Stevens, with a story by the actor Maria Bello, Nanisca bonds with a new recruit named Nawi , whose adoptive father gives her to the Agojie after she refuses to marry. Prince-Bythewood was adopted, and sought out a relationship with her birth mother,. “You wonder why you were given up and sometimes you’re able to get the answers to that and sometimes you’re not,” she says. “My answer wasn’t what I’d hoped to hear because you have fantasies of what it might be.
“For [Gina] it wasn’t just about directing a movie. It was about protecting the well-being of every actor on the set.” Once on board, Prince-Bythewood began piecing together the real story of the Agojie along with production designer Akin McKenzie.
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