Moonlight (2016), debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 14. The 10-episode show, based on Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Cora Randall as she tries to escape the antebellum South. She finds an actual railroad and not just a metaphorical one for her journey north. Cora is being hunted by Arnold Ridgeway, who is determined to bring her back to Georgia because her mother is the only escapee he has never caught. The series stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. The Spare Room.Somewhere Else recently reopened behind the pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt.
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Barry Jenkins knows full well the traumatizing effect of film and TV depictions of the inhumanity of slavery.
But the director of Oscar-winning 2016 film Moonlight found compelling reasons to adapt Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Underground Railroad, into a 10-episode Amazon series (streaming Friday) that conveys the resiliency of those enduring such brutality.
Jenkins, the writer, director and executive producer of Railroad, saw an opportunity to tell a story about an institution whose repercussions are still felt, from a perspective that has often been neglected. As I grew as a person, it became very clear that it was necessary for me to use my voice to speak to my heritage here as a Black person in America, he says. Yet I also know how fraught those images (of slavery) are, how fraught even acknowledging this history is, both within my community and outside it. And I ve never had that before working on a piece of art. It s
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Barry Jenkins is giving voice to an important narrative with his Amazon series
The Underground Railroad. Based on
Colson Whitehead‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Jenkins believes his series captures more than just the trauma of those who wanted freedom, it allows for a space where we “recontextualize our ancestors and… honor them in our image.”
“I think acknowledging the trauma… is not the same as celebrating the trauma,” Jenkins tells ABC Audio. “It’s not the same as sensationalizing the trauma. It’s just acknowledging it. I think the other eight and a half hours [of the series] because only one and a half of these episodes take place in the plantation that’s about survival. It’s about victory. And I think that’s the r