{"id":9977,"date":"2019-06-23T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2019-07-06T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:16:47","slug":"malcolm-x-mlk-queen-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/23\/malcolm-x-mlk-queen-slim\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm X, MLK, Queen &#038; Slim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from BET<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jodie Turner-Smith On Being The Malcolm X To Daniel Kaluuya\u2019s MLK In \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The romantic drama from Lena Waithe explores a Black couple on a first date who find themselves on the run from the law.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Jerry L. Barrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/celebrities\/exclusives\/jodie-turner-smith-queen-and-slim-set-visit\/_jcr_content\/bodycopycontainer\/embedded_image\/image.custom1200x800.dimg\/__1561082972147__1561082052964\/062119-Celebrities-Daniel-Kaluuya-Jodie-Turner-Smith-Queen-and-Slim.jpeg\" alt=\"Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith on the set of 'Queen &amp; Slim'\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jodie Turner-Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;runs her fingers through her reddish brown, low-cropped fro and smiles through the Louisiana heat. Shooting for her first feature film,&nbsp;<em>Queen &amp; Slim,<\/em>&nbsp;has taken her from the freezing polar vortex of Ohio to the outskirts of New Orleans. A tiger-striped dress clings to her lithe frame revealing a bandage tied around her thigh. The late February sun has just hit its peak in the sky, but it looks like she\u2019s already had a really long day. She\u2019s pleasant and engaged, but the trauma of her character, Queen, is still visible in her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TV watchers may know Jodie as the genetically enhanced first officer, Melantha Jhirl, from Syfy\u2019s space odyssey,\u00a0<em>Nightflyers<\/em>. When word first got out about a \u201cBlack Bonnie &amp; Clyde\u201d film being produced by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/video\/blackgirlsrock\/2018\/acceptance-speeches\/shot-caller-award-lena-waithe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Lena Waithe<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and directed by\u00a0<strong>Melina Matsoukas<\/strong>(the gifted eye behind Beyonce\u2019s \u201cFormation\u201d and Nike\u2019s \u201cEquality\u201d campaign) she made it a point to get an audition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the script written by Lena Waithe and based on an original idea by bestselling author\u00a0<strong>James Frey,<\/strong>\u00a0Queen is a defense attorney who goes on a date with\u00a0<strong>Daniel Kaluuya<\/strong>\u2019s(<em>Get Out, Black Panther<\/em>)working-class character, Slim, and things go from bad to worse as the couple find themselves on a very unforeseen road trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/celebrities\/exclusives\/jodie-turner-smith-queen-and-slim-set-visit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at BET (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at BET<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BET Jodie Turner-Smith On Being The Malcolm X To Daniel Kaluuya\u2019s MLK In \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019 The romantic drama from Lena Waithe explores a Black couple on a first date who find themselves on the run from the law. Written by Jerry L. Barrow Jodie Turner-Smith&nbsp;runs her fingers through her reddish brown, low-cropped fro [&hellip;]<\/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-9977","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\/9977","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=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}