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Malcolm Washington Built His Family Legacy Into Directorial Debut ‘The Piano Lesson’: “A Big Part Of This Was Based On My Grandfather”
How Malcolm Washington paid homage to his family legacy with directorial debut 'The Piano Lesson': 'A big part of this was based on my grandfather.'
For director Malcolm Washington, generational Black resilience and complex familial bonds are the underlying themes in front of and behind the camera for Netflix ’s The Piano Lesson. A movement of the Black Southern Gothic was happening going into the ‘90s, if you look at Eve’s Bayou or The Bluest Eye, Daughters of the Dust, Arthur Jafa or Kara Walker paintings. Putting her into the chaos of John David spinning around her, then Sam and Michael Potts and Ray Fisher and Corey Hawkins, the alchemy of all those things, created this beautiful and combustible energy.
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