"I wanted to show the nuances of their relationship in terms of their love for one another, their sensuality, their sense of leadership, and their differences," says Tillman Jr. The film had to portray those same sentiments without the benefit of a few hundred pages to lay it all out.
In the novel, readers become incredibly familiar with the history of Maverick and Lisa's relationship: The infidelity, the breakup, the jail sentence. And what does that mean when so often young black kids have to get this talk and are forced out of their innocence into a world that so often sees them as a threat?" We see Starr at such a young age 7 is such a young age to be involved in this very adult conversation. There’s a deleted version of the book where it starts with that scene it didn’t work for us but for the film it gave us this very important background scene for the character, and it informs so much of what she does and how she reacts later on. "When I saw one of the first drafts of the script, and it opened with that scene of the family I was like maybe we should start the book out that way, too," laughs Thomas.
The Carter family sits around the table as Maverick (Russell Hornsby) explains to a young Starr (Kai Ture) and Seven (Hassan Welch) what no child should have to hear: What to do when they got stopped by the police.
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