{"id":10410,"date":"2019-12-20T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10410"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:02:34","slug":"straight-from-lena-on-queen-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/20\/straight-from-lena-on-queen-slim\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight from Lena on QUEEN & SLIM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from the LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Lena Waithe fell in love with her leads while writing \u2018Queen & Slim\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0LENA WAITHE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\u201cQueen
Lena Waithe took the idea for \u201cQueen & Slim\u201d and made it her own.\u00a0(Francine Orr \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQueen & Slim\u201d began at a party, celebrating my wife Alana Mayo. She had just been chosen as one of the Hollywood Reporter\u2019s 35 under 35 execs. I was there gallivanting and having a good time when writer James Frey walked up to me and introduced himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was kind of funny, because I knew who he was, but I joined in the formalities anyway and introduced myself as well. I think he was aware I was a writer \u2014 but at that time\u00a0\u201cThe Chi\u201d<\/a>\u00a0hadn\u2019t aired yet (we were still writing the first season) and the \u201cThanksgiving\u201d episode of \u201cMaster of None\u201d was an idea that had not yet entered my mind. I say all this to say: He had no real reason to throw an idea \u2014 an idea that would ultimately change the course of my life \u2014 into my lap at a rooftop party in Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He simply said, \u201cI have an idea for a movie I can\u2019t write.\u201d I responded, \u201cWhat\u2019s the idea?\u201d And he said, very cavalierly, a black man and a black woman go out on a first date and on their way home they get pulled over by a cop, things escalate quickly and they kill the cop in self-defense and rather than turning themselves in, they decide to get in the car and go.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I quickly said to him, \u201cYou\u2019re right, you can\u2019t write that.\u201d But I knew I could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had another title and an outline in his back pocket, but I didn\u2019t want it. I didn\u2019t need it. That sentence was all I needed to go create a black odyssey that would ultimately become a meditation on blackness and what it truly looks like to search for freedom and joy that\u2019s everlasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from the LA Times Why Lena Waithe fell in love with her leads while writing \u2018Queen & Slim\u2019 By\u00a0LENA WAITHE \u201cQueen & Slim\u201d began at a party, celebrating my wife Alana Mayo. She had just been chosen as one of the Hollywood Reporter\u2019s 35 under 35 execs. I was there gallivanting and having a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}