Gina Prince-Bythewood & ‘The Woman King’ Editor Terilyn A. Shropshire On The “Joy” And Rigors Of Tackling Action-Packed Historical Epic For Sony The Process is presented by HBO
, she was looking for someone she’d “want to go to war with” — someone who saw and appreciated her vision and would be “in the fight” with her to protect it.
This and so much more, she found in Terilyn A.
tells the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen.
A main point of focus then, as Shropshire went about her work, was balance. “I could already tell in the script this was going to take some balance and some work and some modulating, because it wasn’t a straight-on action movie, and it wasn’t just a drama,” she recalls. “It felt very historical and balanced and was a full-bodied script, so you knew that we’d only have a certain space of time to tell that, and that we’d have to figure out how to make that work.
In conversation with Prince-Bythewood on The Process, Shropshire discusses her first-ever meeting with the filmmaker and her perception early on that she was “hard to read,” making the transition from film to digital, her approach to her work as a film’s “first audience,” guarding herself from knowledge of what happened on set and letting the footage tell her the story, accepting the prospect of having to repeatedly prove to executives her level of craft, no matter how far along she is in her...
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