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‘Nickel Boys’ Director/Co-Writer RaMell Ross & Stars On “Experimental Monument” Of Oscar-Nominated Civil Rights-Era Drama & Power Of Trust
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross, actors Brandon Wilson & Ethan Herisse on the trust & intent of the Jim Crow-era set drama based on the award winning novel
“I think about the film as a place to do, as I like to say, make an experiential monument,” says Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross of the Oscar nominated the Florida set Jim Crow-era drama adapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2020 Pulitzer Prizing winning novel of the same name. With acclaimed actors Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson on-stage with him and Deadline Executive Editor Dominic Patten moderating, Ross was speaking on a very rainy Thursday at an enthusiastically attended screening of Nickel Boys at the London West Hollywood In a film that often literally takes the perspective of its main characters, Herisse and Wilson had to go to some unknow places figuratively playing two boys sentenced to an violently abusive and racist 1960s Sunshine state panhandle reform school – a process that required a lot of trust, on all sides of the camera
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