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‘Iyanu’ Creator Roye Okupe & Creative Team On “Weaving The Emotional Journey” With Cultural Authenticity & Empathy
'Iyanu' Creator Roye Okupe & Creative Team On Weaving The Emotional Journey With Cultural Authenticity & Empathy
Okupe’s dream was to infuse the culture he grew up with into the series, along with the help of some veterans of the animation industry – story editor Brandon Easton, writer Kerri Grant and supervising director Vincent Edwards. I moved to the U.S. in 2002, and the closer I got to Hollywood, the more I felt the desire to create an animated show that was based on some of the things that I learned growing up about my history and my culture. It was also a very, very delicate task to balance imputing culture into a story without, as Vincent would say, “making people drink through a water hose” where they’re just overwhelmed with so much new information.
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