KING And after we finished talking, how he just stopped and held my hand and looked into my eyes, and in that moment, he made me feel so special. I remember the last time I saw him and knowing now what he knew then and how he was able to make me feel like the most special person in that moment, that working with me would be at the top of his list. KING Then I think of people like Chadwick Boseman, and I’m like, “He’s the best of who we are, I mean, as human beings.” It almost feels like that is a whole other level of because his heart was just so big and he managed to live so selflessly. Like, how do you have the time to be you? Sometimes I look at people like Serena or Beyoncé, and I don’t understand how you can actually sleep and be able to put out what they put out. ( Laughs.) And then there are moments that I feel like there’s no such thing as greatness being a certain thing. There are moments that I feel like I’ve always been great. KING I guess I have a hard time with phrases like that. For the last couple of years, you’ve been humming at this different level, and it’s always been building to that, but I want to know, do you feel that? That you are touching greatness right now? PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD OK, so, she’s going through her trophy room, and first of all there’s so many that she’s trying to remember, “Wait, how many French Opens did I win?” And then there was a second-place trophy, and she’s like, “Ah, nope, no second place in here, we don’t do second place,” which is my mentality, no doubt.
I don’t know if you saw it, but Serena Williams just dropped that incredible flex … GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD It’s interesting that you’re wearing that shirt because it’s one of the first things I wanted to talk about. So, fittingly, Prince-Bythewood, whose other directorial credits include Love & Basketballand Beyond the Lights, kicked off the hourlong chat with a discussion of Black excellence. Her deft handling of the material scored widespread praise and could, if all goes right, make her the first Black female directing nominee at April’s Academy Awards. She followed up by moving behind the lens, directing an adaptation of Kemp Powers’ stage imagining of conversations among four prominent Black men - Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X - for Amazon.
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After more than three decades in front of the camera, her breakthrough came with back-to-back roles in 2018’s If Beale Street Could Talkand 2019’s Watchmen, which earned King her first Oscar and fourth Emmy, respectively, and the full attention of the industry. Still, the opportunity for something a little more intimate presented itself on this day because, once again, King has been thrust into the awards conversation. They’re both a part of what is now a standing Saturday Zoom gathering with an enviable group of Black female artists who converse about anything and everything, according to its participants. The two have known each other casually for years - in fact, it was the Old Guard director who recommended King’s One Night in Miamidirectory of photography, Tami Reiker - but they’ve grown considerably closer during the pandemic. Prince-Bythewood, 51, has ostensibly signed on to interview King, 50, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress turned first-time feature director with the Amazon Studios drama, but it very quickly becomes a back-and-forth about everything from the politics of ambition to the challenges of raising Black sons.
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