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A Thesis on Cord Jefferson
The American Fiction writer-director talked with pal and past collaborator Mike Schur, who had some hunches about his career.
Last November, when Cord Jefferson sat down for an interview at Vulture Festival, his movie American Fiction — which is seeing its theatrical run expand wider today — was only just beginning to achieve some of the buzz that has now made it and its stars a fixture of awards-season nominee lists. Based on the 2001 book Erasure by Percival Everett, American Fiction marks Jefferson’s film directorial debut following stints as a writer for shows such as Watchmen, Station Eleven, and The Good Place. What I can’t really abide is the idea that now the tech bros have come in, and now it’s, “How do we make a perfectly smooth pebble that is inoffensive so that everyone in the world will subscribe to our service?” That’s a bad version of Hollywood, and I fear it’s the one we are headed toward.
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