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David Oyelowo Is Working To “Normalize The Marginalized” With Production Company Yoruba Saxon And Streamer Mansa
'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' star David Oyelowo on working to 'normalize the marginalized' with production company Yoruba Saxon and streamer Mansa.
Near the end of the miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, David Oyelowo ’s titular character is told something all too familiar to many unsung real-life heroes: “No one’s gonna ever know, but you made history today.” That obsession took the form of Yoruba Saxon, a talent-led production company Oyelowo created with his wife Jessica in 2014, though his desire to produce actually came from his “accidental experience” of helping to put together Ava DuVernay’s Selma years before. It’s the only explanation you can find and/or give for a character that is that cinematic, that interesting, steeped in a genre that is that beloved … and in the 150 years since the events that he lived, we haven’t had a show that properly centers him in a major way.”
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