• 2 months ago
Director Rachel Morrison and actors Bryan Tyree Henry and Ryan Destiny discuss 'The Fire Inside' at the Variety Studio at TIFF. Ryan talks about resonating with Claressa's experience in Flint, Michigan.

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00:00I was just going to say, touching on what you said about us both being from Michigan,
00:03one of the craziest things, and I think that also helped the process, because there are
00:09cultural things that were happening during that same time, and us both growing up the
00:14same age, and her being from Flint, me being from Detroit, I knew what was happening around
00:19that time, 2012, 2011, that time was so specific for people that were from there.
00:26And so I think that really helped me as well, without it ever being on purpose, just the
00:30craziest coincidence ever, so that was really cool.

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