In her interview with Chernobyl's Craig Mazin, ava explains why she has counselors on set for intense scenes: 'You’ve now lived trauma in your body — even though you’re doing it as an actor, your body doesn’t know that'
dug deeper to get to know the boys who were labeled the “Central Park Five” after being arrested for rape in a 1989 case that generated national coverage. Sitting down at Variety, DuVernay and Mazin discussed the responsibility they felt to portray the humanity behind the people involved in the true tales, as well as the challenges that arose from mixing the outsider perspective of politics and the media with intimate moments between characters.
How did you determine when to break out of the more intimate moments of humanity with the outside perspective of news footage?For me that news footage is only there to stand as proxy for Trump’s voice. This could have been a piece where we had an actor playing Trump — and I explored it — but in saying, “No, my mission is to tell the boys’ stories that have not been heard for the past 30 years,” then I’m going to do that in every way, with all of the tools in my arsenal, including casting.
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