In 'The Inspection,' the actor plays the religious, homophobic mother of a gay man. Her first thought at being offered the role? Why would anyone 'think I could play a character that behaves this way and do it convincingly?'
“There were things that we just didn’t have to explain to each other,” the actor says of writer-director Elegance Bratton, on whose life the film is based.No one really knew how that would impact the project — except that obviously it would have an incredible impact on Elegance and [possibly] his interest in telling this story. It’s one thing to tell this story when someone’s alive and you want to prove something. And it’s another thing when they’re no longer with us. Grief can morph our memory.
What was it like to do take after take knowing that Bratton was listening to lacerating dialogue lifted from his own past? I wish it was take after take. We were running against the light. We had to film three scenes all in one day. Each angle was one take, two takes max. I used to make fun of actors who are like, “I couldn’t let [the character] go ...” I’m more like, “I’m out. What’s the 405 looking like?” I finally understood what they meant. I had to stay in it for that whole day.The vast majority of Black projects have smaller budgets. The bulk of my career, I’ve been forced to work with zero time.
You have a trans child. Were there conversations with her about your decision to play an unapologetic homophobe? Any time I take a job because of my kids, whether it’s because it’s something they might enjoy, or touches on some aspect of their life, we have a discussion about it. I got “Inspection” and “Strange World” around the same time. It was wild. “Strange World” is a love letter to the great parents of queer children. “Inspection” is the opposite. But both are a tribute to Zaya. And I wanted to know how she felt about it, if it might make her feel exposed in a way that’d make her uncomfortable.
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