
‘It’s About a Certain Kind of Blackness’: Steve McQueen on the Making of ‘Small Axe’
The director discusses his five-film opus tracing the experience of West Indian immigrants and their families in late-Sixties through early-Eighties London
The director discusses his five-film opus tracing the experience of West Indian immigrants and their families in late-Sixties through early-Eighties London
The third film in his pentalogy stars John Boyega as a representation of frustrated, upstanding, rational black masculinity
The second chapter of the five-film Small Axe, in which Steve McQueen attempts to excavate glimpses of black British life from the Sixties through the Eighties, is rooted in reggae
New film, out December 4th, is part of Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology
"What I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good"
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