How ‘The Inspection’ Filmmaker Elegance Bratton and Stars Gabrielle Union and Jeremy Pope Found Personal Healing Through the True-Life Tale
“I made this movie about a young man who goes through a grueling experience just to win back his mother’s love,” Bratton says. “This is a story for anybody who’s ever felt disregarded, downtrodden and underestimated, to remind them of the power they have inside.”
But Bratton doesn’t sit through screenings anymore; he needs to pace himself emotionally for the Q&As afterward. “I love my mom and I didn’t get a chance to find closure that I was looking for. That’s another reason why I’m so grateful to Gabrielle and Jeremy for allowing me the best cognitive behavioral therapy session you could possibly imagine,” he adds. “I got to have a moment with my mom and bring her back to life and tell her the things that I wish I could have said. I always intended to do that; I just didn’t know that it was going to happen under these circumstances.
When Bratton initially approached Union to play Inez, she’d been hesitant, thinking it’d be tough to find common ground with the homophobic woman. As she peeled back the layers of both the character and the real Inell, though, Union recognized that same desire to feel seen and worthy that she herself has felt over the years — but approached differently.
Despite having built a successful career spanning nearly 30 years, Union had never done anything quite like this before. The work that went into playing Inez felt like “excavating my soul,” she says, but Bratton knew she had it in her. That led him to another realization about his film: “I knew that no matter how my mom felt about my sexuality, or my career, that if Miss Gabrielle Union was playing a character that was inspired by her, she would watch it and maybe it would change her.”In Union, he sees shades of Charlize Theron. He sees the hyper-machinations and the wheels turning in the head of a character like Isis in “Bring It On” and has wondered why others in Hollywood haven’t recognized those qualities more often.
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