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12 Behind-The-Scenes Facts I Learned From Ava DuVernay About "Origin"


"It wasn't made to be a manifesto on Black womanhood, but I'm glad if it is."

We sat down with the Academy Award-nominated visionary to discuss her groundbreaking new film, which adapts Isabel Wilkerson's New York Times bestseller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. And that is determined a lot by the popularity of an actor, their social media, their cue scores, who likes them or doesn't, that kind of thing. And in terms of how to render it visually in a way that wasn't completely Kumbaya and disregarded the real-world issues around MAGA movements and what Trump-ism is, how it's changing our country.

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