“I never wanted to show us like that.
And then this picture came along.
And this is not a film about slavery.
Will Smith and Ben Foster in ‘Emancipation’.Courtesy of Apple
This is a film about freedom.
This is a film about resilience.
This is a film about faith.”
“Some young kids were born, the first president they saw was Barack Obama,” Fuqua said.
“If we start our history there that means we forget all the past.
We forget about Martin Luther King.
We forget about Malcolm X.
We forget about all our great leaders in the past.
Do we forget about Nelson Mandela?
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