Diarra Kilpatrick is an Emmy nominee in the Best Short Form Actress category for “American Koko,” which is set in “post post-racial America.” In an interview with Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video above), Kilpatrick explains that because Barack Obama was president, “There was this myth going around that we were in post-racial America and then the election happened where we elected Donald Trump as our president and right away, we saw, rising the forefront, people who had had less than post-racial ideas becoming more vocal and so I called this the post post-racial period of America.”
SEEour interview with Short Form Actor nominee Melvin Jackson Jr.
Kilpatrick plays the eponymous character, who is “this detective who has made it her work to solve raced-based issues” on a local level. Kilpatrick notes about her comedic take on weighty subjects, “It’s important to cross the line sometimes when you are a satirist,...
SEEour interview with Short Form Actor nominee Melvin Jackson Jr.
Kilpatrick plays the eponymous character, who is “this detective who has made it her work to solve raced-based issues” on a local level. Kilpatrick notes about her comedic take on weighty subjects, “It’s important to cross the line sometimes when you are a satirist,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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