Producer-star Tessa Thompson and writer-director Eugene Ashe talk about crafting the lush romance.
I think its sort of like a portal, producer and starTessa Thompsonsays of the dreamy midcentury melodrama.
And its a movie about love!
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So in a weird way, maybe its the perfect time [for it].
Ashe was initially inspired to write the film by going through old family photo albums.
Thats something that continues to be true, unfortunately.
But we were also doing lots of other things, too.
We were singing and dancing, and we were making love and we were making dinner.
We were celebrating, we were mourning loss we were doing all these other things, as humans.
As a kid, that was my form of dress-up, she says.
And now, of course, as an actor, I’m essentially dressing up all the time.
I always loved gloves.
We wanted that to feel sort of like aBreakfast at Tiffanysmoment, says the actress.
That sort of glamour and beauty we have not often enough gotten to see Black women that way.
That was so significant to us.
She neednt have worried.
it’s possible for you to see how Tessa lives her own life with agency.
I think that is inherent in her, Ashe says.
Nobody else could play Sylvie.
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