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Actor Milauna Jackson Talks Crafting Resilience & Authority For ‘The Six Triple Eight’


Milauna Jackson talks to Deadline about working with flimmaker Tyler Perry and actor-producer Kerry Washington

Written and directed by Tyler Perry, the film dives into the true story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the first military division comprised of Black women and the first to serve overseas during World War II. Led by officer Charity Adams ( Kerry Washington), while in Europe, the faction was tasked with sorting and delivering over 17 million pieces of backlog mail that was mostly damaged or undeliverable due to insufficient storage holdings. The reason that they were able to return to America having not only fulfilled the mission of helping the American soldiers, but the woman who represents the West Virginian native who goes to the White House went out to [to seek assistance].

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