Barry Jenkins: The Rolling Stone Interview
Rolling Stone Menu The Rolling Stone Interview: Barry Jenkins The Oscar-winning director on his adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the beauty of black bodies, his unique path to Hollywood, and much more By Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel The Underground Railroad depicts both the savage reality of American slavery and the danger of escaping it. Much like Gulliver’s Travels, the story takes its fugitive protagonist, Cora, on a fantastical tour through different states via a literal locomotive. Each stop along the ...