In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by two white men in Mississippi. The trailer for the upcoming biopic was released on what would have been Till's 81st birthday.
Till's murder laid bare the racism and danger of the Jim Crow South, and the power white residents wielded. In the trailer, Mamie refers to the difference between the North, where Till lived, and the South, where he was going:"He doesn’t understand how different things are in Mississippi.”
Mamie Till, Emmett Till's mother, held a five-day open casket funeral in Chicago. “She wanted people to understand what hate did to him,” Deborah Watts, a cousin of Till’s and the founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation told theAt a press conference, Director Chinonye Chukwu said Mamie and her work as an activist are the anchor of the film.
“I knew that the way that I needed to tell this story was through the emotional journey of Mamie,” Chukwu said at a Thursday press conference for"Till," per, Deadwyler said she originally"didn't want" the role of Mamie. “I’ve been a load-carrier for a long time,” Deadwyler said. “And Mamie Till Mobley is a pure example of a Black woman carrying that invisible load we always carry.
“What you’re experiencing is this very concentrated moment of what it means to be a mother in such a state, to become ain the most tragic moment,” Deadwyler said. “To have stood as strong-willed as she did, and with such grace in the face of real f---ing terror— there’s no other term for it butEqually top of mind for Chukwu was to show Till as he lived. Chukwu, who also co-wrote the film, spoke to Till's surviving family members to inform his depiction in the movie.
67 years after his murder,"Till" will bring this story to the forefront. As Mamie says in the trailer, it is everyone's business: “The lynching of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all."Elena Nicolaou is a senior entertainment editor at Today.com, where she covers the latest in TV, pop culture, movies and all things streaming. Previously, she covered culture at Refinery29 and Oprah Daily.
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