Davis was in conversation with director Gina Prince-Bythewood at TIFF, where their historical epic 'The Woman King' had its world premiere on Sept 9.
The Sundance Institute later called to stage a reading, which led to Spike Lee and New Line finding the film. “The fact that to this day so many men say that Monica [the basketball played by Sanaa Lathan] is their ideal — that is amazing because I was never anyone’s ideal.”, Prince-Bythewood talked about the difficulties in pitching projects led by and centered on Black women.
“Ninety-nine percent of the time it is white men sitting across from you and you are trying to convince them your story is worthy,” said Prince-Bythewood. “It is soul-crushing to get ‘no’ after ‘no’ after ‘I don’t get it.'” But, the director asserted, “Putting Black girls and Black women up on screen is absolutely worth the fight.”, which is getting its North American release on Sept.
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