![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re both theater kids, so we treated the source material like we would any piece of great theater that we would be adapting," Bravo says. Together, they approached the movie with a commitment to taking their cues from Zola's tweets. So my job, our job, was to replicate what she did and imbue the world with all the pride that she had filled it with.”Īctor James Franco was originally supposed to direct "Zola." When he dropped out of the project, Bravo came on board and asked her friend Harris to collaborate on the screenplay. She is judging the circumstance that they found themselves in, but she isn’t judging that work. everyone in that world is met with a good deal of generosity and dignity. Says Bravo, who's helmed several recent episodes of HBO's "In Treatment" reboot, “The story that A’Ziah King wrote is one in which not only the protagonists, but. When “Zola” premiered last year at Sundance and became a festival hit, the Hollywood Reporter noted that “it makes ‘Hustlers’ look like a Disney movie.’” While it certainly earns its R rating for sexual language and content, what really sets it apart is that it does so without exploiting or lessening how harrowing Zola's predicament was. ![]()
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