The Fear of the Academy

"We had to do we had to raise additional money and it was hella stressful," she said. "The fear is that there is a cultural translation point that caps off movies like maybe the woman king, you know what I mean?" She added: "If I make the best movie about South Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I'm from, ever, will they even get it if it's not melodramatic? That's the thing that never goes away."