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“I Will Always Fight For My Characters”: Candice Carty-Williams Details The Struggle Behind Adapting Her Hit Novel ‘Queenie’ For TV & Why She Thinks BBC-Netflix’s ‘Champion’ Will Be A Success In The States
EXCLUSIVE: Candice Carty-Williams was catapulted to fame by her hit novel Queenie, which made her the first Black author to win a top prize at the British Book Awards, but she tells Deadline adapti…
EXCLUSIVE: Candice Carty-Williams was catapulted to fame by her hit novel Queenie, which made her the first Black author to win a top prize at the British Book Awards, but she tells Deadline adapting for TV has proved a seriously tough task. The author rejected the notion that Champion, which is set in her home of South London, is too ‘local’ a story to perform well globally, pointing out that the Queenie novel sold well in the States and was in fact launched there before the UK. Not only was it her first writing gig on a TV series but she also show-ran, exec produced and was heavily involved with the music, spending nearly half a year on set in Birmingham and Jamaica.
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