00:00Can you tell us why you made this amazing film that focuses on women's hair journeys?
00:05Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I mean, first of all, as a man, like I do have male privilege, like
00:09my hair, whatever. And it's been it's been traumatic at times as well, as I detail in
00:15Dear White People. But it's not the same. And I really want this is a film about white supremacy.
00:22I mean, let's not get it twisted. It's a fun movie. It's a popcorn movie. It's a horror movie.
00:26It's a thriller. But it's also about these systems that appear like choices, but they
00:31aren't really choices. You know, there's a there's a it was really important for me to
00:35make this movie not as an interrogation of a black woman's right to choose how she wants
00:41to present herself or how she wants to wear her hair. It's really an interrogation of a
00:45society that says, well, if you don't do it this way, well, then you're excluded from
00:49the society. If you don't, if you sort of show up the way you were made and the way you
00:54were born, then you're going to be excluded from these conversations and excluded from,
00:58you know, so it's really, you know, hair is is really since the birth of this country
01:03has been a way to control black bodies, you know, by this this the systems of white supremacy.
01:09And I wanted to get into that. That to me is the horror that keeps me up at night.
01:14And I think like really, you know, horror movies and stand the test of time speak to a real horror,
01:19a real sense of dread that people have. And, you know, knowing that, like me walking through
01:24the world the way God made me could get me killed, essentially, is what I'm trying to
01:28distill, you know, through this movie about hair.
01:31No, it's interesting that the timing of it, yes, it's a horror, it's comedy, but it's the
01:37messaging is so timely for right now. And I think it's going to resonate quite well.
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