On her way to becoming one of the most prominent Black female writer-directors in Hollywood, Gina Prince-Bythewood heard her fair share of the word “No.” But the director of “The Old Guard” says ov…
— and because Prince-Bythewood is an alum of the Foundation’s internship program .
“What I have done is, first and foremost, I wrote the stuff that I directed. And I did that because I realized very quickly nobody is gonna just send scripts to me the direct, so I have to create my own opportunities,” Prince-Bythewood explained. “I’m the first audience. I have to write what I want to see, and then my hope is that others will want to see that as well. But stories about us [people of color] are the hardest to get made in this industry.
“I went from thinking ‘I love action movies. I love Marvel films. [But] I’ll never get a chance to because Hollywood sucks.’ Having my younger son say to me ‘How come I don’t get to see myself as a superhero?’ — in my mind, I’m like ‘Wow, I’m an artist and I’m not giving my boys this thing that they need and that they crave,’” Prince-Bythewood recalled.“I went into that room with such crazy passion, because I didn’t have any action on my resume or visual effects.
Though the Sony-Marvel film ultimately didn’t move forward, Prince-Bythewood said, “Everything I learned in that year and a half working on it, I was able to take to ‘The Old Guard,’ so that it wasn’t suddenly this giant leap, it was just a step.”
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