Amandla Stenberg Remembers ‘The Hate U Give’ Screenwriter Audrey Wells as ‘Selfless’ in Her Artistry
Following a years-long battle with cancer, “The Hate U Give” screenwriter Audrey Wells died Thursday at 58, a day before her final film arrived in theaters. Amandla Stenberg, who stars in the Black Lives Matter–themed drama, spoke about Wells during the Emerging Actors panel at the Hamptons International Film Festival yesterday.
“It was a really, really special artistic collaboration between Audrey, me, George [Tillman Jr., the film’s director], and Angie Thomas, who wrote the book,” Stenberg said during a discussion moderated by IndieWire’s Eric Kohn. “Something that was just so amazing about Audrey is she understood that she couldn’t necessarily understand this experience. She — I’m sorry — brought me in to work with her on the script because she understood that she didn’t have the experience of a black girl and she wanted to make sure that she was as authentic as possible in how she wrote the script, so she brought me and George in.
“It was a really, really special artistic collaboration between Audrey, me, George [Tillman Jr., the film’s director], and Angie Thomas, who wrote the book,” Stenberg said during a discussion moderated by IndieWire’s Eric Kohn. “Something that was just so amazing about Audrey is she understood that she couldn’t necessarily understand this experience. She — I’m sorry — brought me in to work with her on the script because she understood that she didn’t have the experience of a black girl and she wanted to make sure that she was as authentic as possible in how she wrote the script, so she brought me and George in.
- 10/6/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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