The actor drew upon personal insights from filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood in a key moment: 'I wanted to do my best in serving where Gina was coming from.'
The reveal scene between mother and daughter was incredibly personal to Prince-Bythewood, and it consists of dialogue that she longed to hear from her own biological mother. Mbedu and Davis had many conversations with their director, who was adopted as a child, about the autobiographical scene, and Mbedu wanted to honor Prince-Bythewood’s own journey just as much as her character’s.
“[Those conversations] made me completely understand where she was coming from in telling this particular story or this moment in the narrative, but it also made me rather sensitive to how I treated it in the moment. I wanted to do my best in serving where Gina was coming from,” Mbedu tells, Thuso Mbedu goes into further detail regarding the film’s incredibly moving mother-daughter storyline. The South African actor also discusses the parallels between her and Nawi.
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