00:00I mean, for me, it was two parts. One, it was the love story. Just a very pure love story between two young black people. I just hadn't seen something like that, as Kiki described it, very tender and just honest and pure. These kids, you know, they fall in love at the age of like five, and then they grow up and they're 20 and they want to get married. You know, we don't see that told about our people very often with the care that Mr. Baldwin does.
00:21And the other part of it was, I wrote this at the same time I wrote Moonlight, and these are two very different films about two very different families, but neither one of them says everything about all black people.
00:32And so I think as I'm weaving this tapestry of the black experience, I think the family at the center of this film is so different than the family at the center of Moonlight.
00:39I think it's important to bring those two different depictions of black family life from the same voice. And so it was really important to me to follow up Moonlight with this film.
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