“It’s a double-edged sword for me,” the filmmaker says of releasingMiss Juneteenthat such a time.
“It saddens me that we’re in this moment where we are.
“I feel grateful to be able to tell this story.
Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze in ‘Miss Juneteenth’.Vertical Entertainment
I feel grateful to be able to tell a story about Black people.
I love being Black.
“Every Juneteenth pageant, you’re going to have someone deliver that poem and rightfully so!”
“As these pieces started coming together, I started seeing this mother-daughter story.”
“I literally ended up approaching the movie differently after my daughter was born,” she says.
“Before, there was, like, this tougher-love version of Turquoise on paper.
