And that is why, you know, some of those sweeping plantation - you know, the imagery seems eerily familiar.RENZ: I would just add that, you know, yes, I don't know if this would be fully categorized as a traditional horror film.
(SOUNDBITE OF DOMENIQUE DUMONT SONG, "SANS CESSE, MON CHERI") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.Published September 18, 2020 at 3:58 PM EDT,Here's Why You Don't Want To Skip Judge Races On The Ballot, Plus Ways To Learn About Judges Around The State,Ohio Coronavirus Recommendations Say Trick Or Treat Is Ok But Skip The Hayride,Republican Lawmaker Pushes Bill To Cancel COVID State of Emergency,The Modern College of Design Buys Land for New Student Housing. We love New Orleans. It's beautiful. It stars Janelle Monae as a woman who is forced to pick cotton in the fields.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) You'll also be given instructions by one of the overseers as to your daily duties, which ought to be followed obediently and with a smile. The feelings of horror and dread stayed with him long after waking and he channeled them into a short story that bloomed into “Antebellum,” the feature-film debut from Bush and his creative and life partner, Christopher Renz. Welcome.SHAPIRO: For a different conversation, this might not be relevant. Christopher Renz is a director and writer, known for Antebellum (2020), Kill Jay-Z (2017) and Khalid & Normani: Love Lies (2018).
It has a lot of thriller elements. So tell us about the conversation the two of you had that led to this idea.BUSH: Well, this is Gerard. I'm super-Black.BUSH: Christopher and I have been together as a couple and working in partnership for over a decade, and so some of these conversations as it relates to race have happened organically within our partnership. And when we first moved to Los Angeles a few years ago, my father had recently passed away. There wasn't a lot of yelling and screaming in the way that you normally would in trying to reach people on a set. It stars Janelle Monáe in a story that takes on the legacy of slavery in … Here, we whistle while we work.SHAPIRO: The movie trailer also shows her character in the modern world as an accomplished author and public speaker with a husband and a daughter.MONAE: (As Veronica) Daddy is going to get you dressed for school today.BOYCE: (As Kennedi) I know exactly what I want to wear.SHAPIRO: The connection between those two identities is one of the main plot points in the film that we are not going to reveal in this conversation. Antebellum is a new horror thriller directed, written and produced in part by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renze. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz about their new movie, Antebellum. Out of respect to the enslaved, we built replica cabins on the property.
And over the last ten years, you know, Gerard and I have had so many conversations around this. This is only their first real cinema film that they have directed together.
In fact, we were so obsessed with "Gone With The Wind" that we were determined to obtain the lenses that "Gone With The Wind" was shot on. And after he passed, I was having a difficult time sort of processing it. In the latest episode of the MovieMaker Interviews podcast, we asked Antebellum co-writers and directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz about what conversations they had before attempting another film dealing with slavery. Thank you for talking with us about it. The people are fantastic.
And maybe, just maybe, while we're on set, some of this is going to come to the surface. Gary M. Kramer September 17, 2020 9:00PM (UTC) The William Faulkner quote, "The past is never dead. There's a - Louisiana is interesting. Director, Writer. But we feel that horror is a great way in for general audiences who may not, you know, normally receive a message like this. If I look at "Gone With The Wind," I totally find that movie to be a horror film.
But given the content of this movie, I feel like we need to note that, Gerard, you're Black, and, Christopher, you're white. Reviews. The energy was calm.And it was imperative to us that we were really respectful of the history and really respectful of the idea that we all carry around this trauma that we haven't necessarily, if at all, confronted. Cuties Monica Castillo And not only am I Black. Popular reviews. And in the nightmare, I wasn't the star of the dream, which - normally, I'm the star of my own dreams.
But there is that layer right underneath the surface. And I wonder what you think this genre offers that others might not.BUSH: C, do you want to answer, or do you want me to answer?RENZ: You can answer, and then I'll add something.BUSH: OK. Starring cast members Janelle Monáe, Gabourey Sidibe, in a horror thriller movie about a horrifying reality, that she must uncover in this mind-bending mystery. "Antebellum" was written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, who join us now.
And I couldn't shake the nightmare after I awoke from it.RENZ: I think we wrote the short story from that dream together the same day, which is what we used to adapt the screenplay from.SHAPIRO: Wow. Advertisement. And what's interesting about the two of us is that we're able to go into rooms - obviously, as you said before, one of us is Black. I can say something in the exact same way that Gerard says it, and the reaction is completely different.And, you know, the one thing I will say is spending that much time in Louisiana, all of that was heightened.
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