Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's debut feature film is a time-bending horror-thriller called 'Antebellum' that stars JanelleMonae and Kiersey Clemons
sequel, which also touch on the state of race relations past and present. Do you considerThe difference is all those movies deal with the supernatural and science fiction. We play with perspectives and shifting paradigms, so we have our own lane. But I get that, because we’re dealing with Black stories and the history of Black oppression in America, yet ours isn’t tethered to sci-fi or pulp fiction. It’s grounded in something horrifically real.
Although there isn’t an out and proud character in the movie, did you incorporate queerness into one of their backstories?Yes. The scene between Kiersey and Robert Aramayo, who plays the Confederate soldier sent to have sex with her in a cabin, his backstory is he’s questioning and unsure but wants to feel a part of something.We wrote him as a closeted young man confused about his sexuality, and he was only 70% rotten at heart. Where Julia went wrong was questioning his sexuality.
Did you worry about triggering audiences with violent scenes during a time when we’re seeing new videos almost every day of Black people being brutalized or killed by white people?No. At the end of the day, we’re artists and our responsibility is to activate and trigger. I would prefer you be triggered in the safety of your home or a theater than continue to lie to each other and live in an open-air shooting gallery. I don’t think we should police art.
Is there a silver lining to the change in release due to the pandemic? How do you feel about the shift in date and to VOD?I feel it was ordained for the movie to take on its own life and journey and reveal and rebirth itself to the world in its own time. We didn’t know when the final date was picked, of September 18, that it happened to fall on the anniversary of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, so it feels like perfect timing.
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