“I was like ‘Oh my god, what am I doing?’
At fiftysomething you better sit your a down!”
“You gonna see her body floating on a banana leaf in the ocean.
Lashana Lynch, Viola Davis, Shelia Atim in ‘The Woman King’.Ilze Kitshoff/TriStar Pictures
That’s how it feels.”
And that informed who she was from the beginning for me."
I really put that up on screen for people to be inspired by."
Reporting by Lester Fabian Brathwaite and Andrea Mandell.
