“I didn’t understand it at first, and that never really happens,” Johnson tells EW.
“But I was intrigued and fascinated by that.
I was like, ‘Oh wait, I don’t know what I just read.'”
Nicole Beharie in ‘Solos’ on Amazon Prime Video.Jason LaVeris/Amazon Prime Video
And that was a challenge," recalls Johnson.
“There’s so many different topics going on here,” chimes Beharie.
“We got fertility, we got medicine, police presence, and isolation.
Nicole Beharie in ‘Solos’ on Amazon Prime Video.Jason LaVeris/Amazon Prime Video
There’s so many things going on.”
“It was living in the uncertainty.
“The way in which I approached that sequence was not wanting to do a lot of closeups.
“Working with children is not a game, you know.
Children do what they do,” cracks Beharie.
“Because of COVID, there wasn’t a lot of rehearsal time.
We were on his time and we had to just give him the space to run around.”
Johnson felt that key moment called for something different.
“As a filmmaker, I love to move the camera.
Much of the episode’s tension comes from the implications behind the characters being Black.
However, Beharie asserts that the episode has “a universality to it.”
Solosis now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
