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Marlon James & Tamara Lawrance On Portraying The “Richness” Of Queer Caribbean Communities In ‘Get Millie Black’
'Get Millie Black' has been discussed by Marlon James and Tamara Lawrance, who talked about the Channel 4-HBO series and Caribbean communities.
Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James wanted to showcase the “richness” of queer Caribbean communities when compiling his debut TV project Get Millie Black, which launches on Channel 4 and HBO in a few days’ time. The decorated scribe, who has previously said he underwent gruelling religious rituals in his native Jamaica in order to “drive out the gay,” saw an opportunity to paint rich, three-dimensional queer characters and set them amid a traditional crime noir narrative in the Tamara Lawrance-starring drama series. Lawrance, whose past roles include the BBC’s Time and indie movie The Silent Twins, said she “fell in love with” the queer stories penned by “literary icon” James after reading the scripts, and was impressed by the “allyship” that the protagonist displayed towards her sister.
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