Michael K. Williams talks about an emotional moment on the set of ‘12 Years a Slave’, moving Arsenio Hall to tears.
The emotional and spiritual toll that this film must have taken on every single Black cast member…..
Lord….
There’s an excellent Australian film called Rabbit Proof Fence, about the Stolen Generation - Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their families by the white authorities to be raised in government-run schools, and trained essentially to be servants. The film is based on a true story about two sisters and a cousin who, as children, escaped the government school and travelled back, alone and on foot, to their family lands - and it’s an inditement on Australian racism that the Stolen Generation is a recent enough historical event that the actual women whose stories are being portrayed appear at the end of the movie to effectively give the epilogue, about how Molly, the main character, was later taken away again, along with her own children, and escaped again with them. It’s an amazing, harrowing film, is what I’m saying.
But just as happened to Michael K. Williams here, the filming took an incredible emotional toll on the Aboriginal actors. In a documentary about the filming, after they shoot the scene where the children are taken from their mothers, all the Aboriginal women and girls are holding each other, sobbing and shaking and crying, and I just -
This is why we need to tell these stories: because in every way that matters, they are still happening.
(via racebending)
neshatriumphs liked this itsshansy liked this
itiredwriter liked this
powerbottomeminem liked this samantha-shakespeare reblogged this from inkyllama
a-revolutionary reblogged this from neryskiras yaizasinistrasnape liked this
fred-erick-frankenstein liked this
rockymountinchick liked this
hepburnandhepburn liked this yugiohprince reblogged this from riiiibbbboo
riiiibbbboo reblogged this from deputy-ajay-ghale
riiiibbbboo liked this
egg-is-killing-me liked this faithtrustpixiedustworld liked this
reblogblogforthingsilike reblogged this from deputy-ajay-ghale
why-l-so-l-serious liked this
celestialcatra reblogged this from deputy-ajay-ghale
celestialcatra liked this liang-zhu reblogged this from crobones
professor-severus-snape liked this
spookybunnytrauma liked this kmd140 liked this
crobones reblogged this from deputy-ajay-ghale samsaltyscience reblogged this from deputy-ajay-ghale
samsaltyscience liked this
headlessandhellbent reblogged this from deputy-ajay-ghale
deputy-ajay-ghale reblogged this from neryskiras
beckette liked this
planetvoid reblogged this from planetvoid
lethalvenus liked this immayzozi liked this
verkolak liked this
theultimateslashgirl reblogged this from neryskiras
theanxiousenglishmajor liked this
tarbaby4293 reblogged this from neryskiras
tarbaby4293 liked this
diosatheedon liked this weirdoislandgirl liked this
jadorejadorejajajaj liked this
bluelightofjune liked this fecalmatter reblogged this from wastedmyhate
tend3ncies liked this an-underwater-thing reblogged this from wastedmyhate
legzeppelin reblogged this from wastedmyhate wastedmyhate reblogged this from neryskiras
wastedmyhate liked this
lilianasaintz liked this
neryskiras posted this
- Show more notes