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Breaking Baz: ‘Nickel Boys’ Filmmaker RaMell Ross On Blocking Out Black “Trauma Porn” In Visual Poetry Adaptation Of Colson Whitehead’s Novel
'The Nickel Boys' filmmaker RaMell Ross talks about adapting Colson Whitehead's novel his way.
The resulting film Nickel Boys, starring an incandescent Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ( Origin, The Color Purple, If Beale Street Could Talk) as Harriet, Ethan Herisse as her studious grandson Curtis Elwood and Brandon Wilson as his friend, Turner, is the one that he and frequent collaborator Joslyn Barnes first conversed with Gardner and Kleiner over five years ago. Our actors, our talent are fucking showing up… Somehow made it through the machine.” Ross is marvelling as we share a pretty sad take-out hamburger and fried chicken sandwich lunch in a quiet suite at Telluride’s Hotel Columbia 48 hours after the film had its world premiere screening. I’m eager to know what he might do next, although I warn him that he won’t always have the protection of Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Alana Mayo and the many other producers and executives who helped make Nickel Boys shine.
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