Barry Jenkins talks about ‘The Underground Railroad’
The Hindu
The Oscar-award winning director, talks about the joy of creating the show using the ingredients from the Pulitzer-prize winning novel
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is set in an alternate timeline in the 19th Century featuring an actual railroad to help slaves escape. The Pulitzer prize-winning novel tells the story of two slaves, Cora and Caesar, trying to escape their plantation in Georgia. The book has been adapted into a series by Barry Jenkins, with Thuso Mbedu as Cora and Aaron Pierre as Caesar. The director, whose Moonlight (2016) won the Best Picture Oscar, describes The Underground Railroad as a passion project. “I actually picked this five years ago,” he says over a video call. “It has been in motion before I had any awards. It has been a long time in gestation. I always wanted to use my voice to create something that involves the story of my ancestors.”
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