And that trust took him to some weird places in Lorrain’s newest movie, Ema. Bernal: “All films are mysteries; you don’t know how they’re going end up . . . but this one had mystery as its kind of guiding mantra. We didn’t know the scenes from day to day. We only knew them the night before or right on the day. We just went for the journey the Pablo had described to us and that was also changing a lot. I didn’t know what to expect.” – Irish Times
Tag: 05.02.20
Writing The Future, When The Future Isn’t White
N.K. Jemisin won three Hugo Awards in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy, a science fictional world where the protagonist is a middle-aged Black woman (and mother). But to get to that point, she’d had to bend to publishers’ desires for mostly white characters in her previous trilogy. So excuse her if she now takes on Lovecraftian evil – yes, Cthulhu, but “with a group of diverse characters facing off against it – and against, pointedly, the man-bunned alt-right trolls it recruits to fight for it.” – The Guardian (UK)