00:00Essence covered Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in our print magazine, and there's a part in the story where George C. Wolfe says that if he was asked about Ma Rainey's Black Bottom pre-pandemic, he would have said it's a story about the Black migration and what's lost when you go north.
00:14But he said, but in the pandemic and Black Lives Matter and George Floyd, he said, this is a story about our sins and scars that never heal.
00:23So how did the story change for you from the time you filmed it to now as audiences embrace it or we'll see it?
00:35If anyone knew our comrade, Chadwick Boseman, they would know that he was a proponent of social justice, of art, culture, inquiring about all of it.
00:48For this to be his final feels so impactful to know that we are part of that story, that this film is a part of that story and the impact that one can have on culture and the world.
01:02And it feels completely an honor for all of us.
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