Dressed in a red FDNY shirt and matching cap, Spike Lee recalls over Zoom his earliest memory of the World Trade Center: “My first thing was the bombing in 1993.” After a beat, he goes back further…
– 2021 1⁄2,” will air on Sept. 11, the 20-year remembrance of the World Trade Center attacks. The work is a tribute to the city’s resilience and its ability to bounce back in the aftermath of tragedy, whether by terrorism or the coronavirus pandemic. The docu-series is Lee’s testimonial to the greatest city in the world. “I’m a New York storyteller,” he says with pride, pointing out that his art shows the truth as he knows it. “There’s no secret sauce.
In the series, Lee recounts where he was on the morning of the attack. At the time, the New York native was in Los Angeles for business and had set up a meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger to try to convince him to play the lead in a script he had co-written with Budd Schulberg, “Save Us, Joe Louis.” Lee’s wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, called to tell him to turn on the TV.
The second episode detours to Trump reminding viewers of how the former New Yorker and president once called for the death penalty to be reinstated and the execution of the Central Park Five. Lee will call Trump only “Agent Orange.” “This was a bad guy from the get-go; it didn’t just happen when he got to the White House,” Lee says. “When the brothers got acquitted, he still said they were guilty.
Brown, who has worked with Lee on “Do the Right Thing,” “Malcolm X,” “Crooklyn,” “He Got Game,” “25th Hour” and “Inside Man,” among others, admits the story was initially going to be two hours, but it ballooned to four and eventually eight. Brown’s biggest challenge was figuring out how to weave it all together.
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