The deadline is approaching. the September 28, The woman king he will invite himself into the dark rooms. Beyond the impatience to discover a work where the show mixes with historical account And anticolonialist, the pressure is great around the release of the film. This is demonstrated by an interview with actress Viola Davis, starring in the role of a great war general in The woman king.
Will we see more black women movies if Woman King fails?
With its colossal budget of $ 100 millionhis director, black (Gina Prince-Bythewood) and her cast almost exclusively African American womenthe film constitutes a small Revolution in the white and masculine ecosystem of Hollywood blockbusters. According to the Espresso, Viola Davis would spend six years convincing production companies to finance the film. In an interview with AFP, the actress shared the pressure around the release of the film:
” Above all, the film has to bring in money. And I am divided in the face of the fact that (…) If it doesn’t make money, what should be understood ? Alone black womendark-skinned women cannot exceed the global box office ?
If this movie doesn’t make money, ” you will not see at all ” . It is the truth. I wish it were different. (…) We don’t do this with white films. When one movie fails, you make another and another. ”
However, the plot of The king of women has something to make you want: tells the film, set in the nineteenth century the struggle of the warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) against western settlers and slavers. We can not wait !
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