The cast of Ava DuVernay’s devastating fact-based drama talk about the story’s prescience and their memories of the original caseFrom the 39th floor of the Mandarin Oriental in fresh York,Central Park’s spring blossom takes centre stage in a sweeping Manhattan panorama. But even from this high up, it’s impossible to see the park’s entire expanse, and from its southern base among midtown’s designer boutiques and luxury penthouses to the public housing blocks and low income neighbourhood of East Harlem on its northern tip two and half miles absent.
It was in the parks distant northern sector,30 years ago, that an episode of horrific violence now woven into the city’s history of racial injustice took site. And it is that incident that brings some of America’s finest television actors and brightest young prospects to this opulent hotel, and with its jarringly obscured view,nowadays. Related: Ava DuVernay: 'I’m not getting John Wick 3, even though Id worship to make it' When They See Us is available on Netflix on 31 MayContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com