Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Viola Davis, 'The Woman King' tells the rousing story of the female warriors of the African kingdom of Dahomey.
” is a prequel to the film they made together earlier this year, “X.” The character of Pearl, here a young woman almost six decades earlier, desperately wants to get away from her family farm to seek fame and fortune as a dancer. When circumstances force her down a different path, she snaps. The movie is now in theaters.
Jen Yamato spoke to West and Goth for a story publishing soon about how they came to make “X” and “Pearl” back to back, utilizing the same sets. As West said, “I had made a movie years ago called ‘The Sacrament,’ where we built a whole community and populated with extras for four weeks and shot a movie. And then the day you wrap, you just tear it all down and it’s very strange to just go, ‘All of that’s just gone now.’ I felt like, ‘Well, this is a unique time. We have all this stuff.
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