00:00It was an awful experience to sit there and watch every single one of our crafts,
00:09every single one of our performances be ignored.
00:12I know the level of work that this film has across our crew,
00:18our extraordinary crew that was made up, all of our HODs, all women and people of color.
00:24Our cast are so extraordinary.
00:28So, yeah, it was surreal, and it was stunning, and it was angering, really angering.
00:38What has been profound about doing The Woman King is also being around these artists,
00:49these incredible women, incredible black women who, like, they know themselves.
00:55They're so connected ancestrally, spiritually, and to be able to live in that, live in that swagger.
01:04It's like, again, we all know what we're up against.
01:07We all know what we've been through.
01:08But when we came together as a collective, like, there was a power in that that we literally could feel and that we've held on to even off of set.
01:19We talk about it a lot.
01:20But it was really a definitive thing that I wanted to bring black women from all over the diaspora to tell this story, bring us together.
01:29No division.
01:30It didn't matter where you were from.
01:32You're a black woman.
01:33And this is a black woman's story.
01:36This is about our ancestors.
01:37We get to tell this together in the motherland.
01:40Like, it was profound.
01:41And so, again, to take that collective power, that's what I've taken from, that we have to hold on to that.
01:48And then we need to spread that love amongst all of us so that we can keep telling stories like this.
01:53We'll see you next time.
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