Vulture’s Angelica Jade Bastién wrote that “the reason to watch the film is Nicole Beharie’s anchoring performance as Turquoise”, while LA Times film critic Justin Chang praised Beharie’s “rare ability to let you see what she’s thinking”. “Having natural hair in the film was absolutely important to me,” Peoples says, “and it also links to the metaphor of the crown – black women wearing these crowns on our heads.” Beyond the physical appearances of the contestants, even fixtures like the talent round look different in Miss Juneteenth, with Kai performing Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman”. All rights reserved. Beharie decided to speak about the subject in a recent interview with the New York Times, where she revealed that she left partly due to a diagnosis of the auto-immune disease C difficile, but that her decision to leave the show saw her labelled as “difficult” and losing out on work. “We call it the ‘generational curse’,” Peoples laughs heartily. “That’s really what it’s about: what we inherit, what we leave behind, and what we choose to take forward.”, A dream deferred: Nicole Beharie, left, and Alexis Chikaeze, who play mother and daughter in 'Miss Juneteenth', Channing Godfrey Peoples and her stars Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Alexis Chikaeze, centre, takes her place at the Miss Juneteenth pageant. “I remember Steve spoke to me very candidly about people behind the scenes who weren’t sure that Marianne should be cast as a woman of colour,” she recalls. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. For Hollywood writers, the gags are seemingly ripe for the picking: the spray tans, the sequins, the catwalking, the talent round; it’s an apparent battle to the death to project a specific image of femininity. ... Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni … You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. Peoples says that this is also a film about what it means to be a black woman. I think that’s what the younger generations are doing now by standing up in protest, and it’s incredible.”, Of course, Miss Juneteenth isn’t simply a “Black Lives Matter Movie”. Turquoise’s quest to live vicariously through her daughter’s potential success at times borders on obsession, as if she wants to rewrite her own story. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? “I’m fascinated by Pavlov’s theory of domesticating animals,” she says at one point. Her role in the film has won favourable reviews. He was 43. The Dodgers are honoring the late Chadwick Boseman, who died on Friday after a battle with cancer. Nicole Beharie is speaking out about what led to her exit from Sleepy Hollow. During our interview, the actor erupts into a flurry of asides, from the discovery of two new black holes to her ardour for neuroscience. News of Boseman's death was announced by Orel Hershiser and Joe Davis during the Los Angeles Dodgers game, which saw the players wearing the number 42 on their shirts in honor of Robinson. “People say still waters run deep, but Chadwick had this understanding and patience,” she recalls. While issues of anti-black racism circle back again and again in the film, Peoples is staunch that this is a theme that has a life beyond 2020: “We’ve been having these conversations in the black community for as long as I can remember.”, For Beharie, some of the film’s central conflict does serve as a metaphor for the current upheaval taking place across America. “There were moments of bitterness and anger, and also doubt and all of that good stuff,” she says warmly. “Once you have that kind of exchange and you’re heard, seen and so tenderly handled, you want nothing less in your real relationships.”, Following The Express, Beharie’s profile rose further in 2011, when she appeared in Steve McQueen’s Shame. For the film’s protagonist, a working-class single mother named Turquoise (Nicole Beharie), the pageant carries a similar significance.
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