It’s been nearly five decades since the publication of Octavia E. Butler’s critically acclaimed Black sci-fi novel Kindred. In an interview with Publisher’s Weekly, Butler explained that she wanted…
, marks the first onscreen adaptation of Butler’s works. Aside from a couple of modern updates, such as changing the present-day time period of the novel to 2016 from 1976, the show’s overarching premise is similar to Butler’s book.), a 26-year-old Black woman who finds herself time traveling between her Los Angeles home and an Antebellum plantation in Maryland during the 1800s.
And then Octavia Butler, in her lifetime, was always thought of as ahead of her time. And I’ve always felt like that time that she was ahead of is now here. And so that there seems to be, there’s no surprise that since 2016 she’s just mainstreamed so hard because she was doing this. She had this very intense, intellectual project that spanned decades that was ultimately about poking holes in the myths we have around race and superiority, and gender and the imagination.
DEADLINE: This series can be heartbreaking at times and harrowing for sure, but it never feels overtly traumatic. So how did you go about striking that balance?Well, I mean, I’m someone who has a lot of opinions on the history of slavery as depicted in Hollywood, television and film. And this goes back to my academic life and all these things because I think there’s a real ethics to storytelling.
DEADLINE: How did you find Mallori Johnson? What qualities did she possess that proved she was the right choice for such a demanding role? There was so much anxiety about [casting] Dana. We looked at a ton of actresses, many of whom were very familiar to TV audiences. And it was peak Covid, I had a two-month-old, and I was just up all night watching these self-tapes.
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