On screen, she’s inspired Black women across America. Now she’s behind the camera in her first directorial debut.
This is the story of Regina King.
This is the story of Regina King.
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00:00I've had so many women that have paved the way, are paving the way,
00:07and I feel like I walk in their light, and I also am creating my own light.
00:14And there are young women that will walk in the light
00:18that I'm continuing to shine and expand from those women before me.
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00:47There always has been amazing work on TV, and it has not been recognized.
00:54And right now, there is a lot more amazing work from people of color on TV,
01:00and we've made history.
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01:17My mother's a teacher, and that was one of the things that was always a big deal to her,
01:22that art was not pulled out of schools.
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01:58The types of questions I was asking John,
02:01it made him want to open up the world of his prep process as a director.
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02:27I just am excited to be able to have two projects back-to-back that are so different.
02:33You know, just shows, you know, your ability as an actress.
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02:46Everyone from my son to Betty White, you know, are people that I get inspiration from.
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03:07I think it's important that we celebrate ourselves.
03:09It's important that young girls see us celebrate each other.
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03:27Yes, oh my God, very exciting, very exciting.
03:31Exciting that it's on a show that got, hello, ten nominations.
03:36What?
03:38American Crime, ten nominations.
03:40One of them, Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Regina King.
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04:12Just being an Academy member and then my vote, my vote reflected that.
04:17So it says how much a vote counts, how much being a member counts.
04:24So I just hope that this is not just this year, it's the beginning of a change that we need to see.
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04:43It's going to be tough, it's a challenge, but already, as soon as I walked off that stage,
04:48you'd be amazed how many people came up to me and said, whatever you need me to do to help you accomplish that, I'm here for you.
04:57So it's already started, the seed's been planted.
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05:15We still, the cops still haven't been held accountable.
05:22She represents a, just decades to hundreds of years of just violence against black bodies.
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06:07Things that we were talking about in this film are things that have been prescient for black people, you know, far before 1964.
06:20And so I think it just, you know, one of those things like a nod from the universe, because there were really powder keg moments that were happening in 64, 63, 62, that, you know, we come full circle to this powder keg moment in 2020.
06:42So I just, I think as a team, we felt like this story that we felt was always going to be relevant.
06:53Now, there are even more people who are, whose minds are fertile and ready to receive the message, probably more open to receiving the message.
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