But with only 29 days to shoot, she didn’t have much time to prepare. Danny Strong, one of the film’s producers and the co-creator of Empire, was the one to give Henson the script. Love will always win.”Īccording to Bissell, Atwater was particularly pleased that Henson was portraying her. “And we can do it in a way - a safe way - that promotes positive solutions. “ is just a prime example that we can talk about our problems we can talk about our issues,” Green told THR. She described the film as “moving, funny, beautiful, and relevant,” adding that she wished her grandmother was there to see it. “And actually, the most rewarding thing to me, is their families loved the movie.”Īnn-Nakia Green, Atwater’s granddaughter, was even at the premiere Thursday. Ellis did,” producer Fred Bernstein told THR. “The reality is, we tried to stay true to what Ann Atwater and C.P. “Luckily, I had her for three years to talk to,” he said, noting that he also was able to speak with Ellis’ family Bill Riddick, who led the charrette in Durham and Howard Clement, who participated in it alongside Atwater. To be able to tell the duo’s story, Bissell said he needed Atwater. He left the KKK, and remained friends with Atwater until he passed in 2005. And it did.”Īccording to Bissell, “the hate stopped” with Ellis. So if she could change him, she knew it would have some kind of trickle-down effect. He had hundreds of men who would follow him to the ends of the earth. She saw a little crack in there, and said, ‘I can get in there.’ And he wasn’t just a guy, he was the leader of the Klan. It wasn’t her business to have to change this guy, but she suddenly saw him as a person - not a good person, but a human - and he started seeing her that way. But I did that because that’s what Ann Atwater did. He continued, “It’s not lost on me that I three-dimensionalized a member of the Klan. So we’re going to get labeled as a movie, and after people see it, they’ll make up their own minds. I look at somebody on TV who’s saying something I don’t agree with, and I label them: ‘What a jackass.’ But I have to stop myself, because labeled each other. “It was another theme for me in the movie, how we label each other. “I know people put labels on things,” Bissell told The Hollywood Reporter.
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