“There’s obviously an importance to the story overall that you wanna get right,” says Adam Driver about the modern relevance of “BlacKkKlansman.” This latest Spike Lee film tells the true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan with the help of Flip Zimmerman (Driver), a white officer acting as his surrogate. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Composer Terence Blanchard couldn’t believe ‘BlacKkKlansman’ was a real story [Exclusive Video Interview]
Though it’s set in the late 1970s, Lee makes direct references to both our past and present, beginning with scenes from D.W. Griffith‘s Kkk-glorifying film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) and ending with footage from the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. In providing that historical context, Driver believes the film shows “how much this has been a part of the conversation in this country for so long.
See Composer Terence Blanchard couldn’t believe ‘BlacKkKlansman’ was a real story [Exclusive Video Interview]
Though it’s set in the late 1970s, Lee makes direct references to both our past and present, beginning with scenes from D.W. Griffith‘s Kkk-glorifying film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) and ending with footage from the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. In providing that historical context, Driver believes the film shows “how much this has been a part of the conversation in this country for so long.
- 11/14/2018
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
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