Denzel Washington's 'A Journal for Jordan' tells the real-life love story of former New York Times reporter Dana Canedy and the late First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. Here's how the director and cast worked with Canedy to do the story justice.
Directed by Denzel Washington, the film tells the real story of former New York Times senior editor Dana Canedy and First Sergeant Charles Monroe King’s unlikely love affair.
The Times caught up with Canedy, Adams and Washington to discuss the 13-year journey to bring the story to the screen.How did this movie come about? “Between 2008 and 2018 was a period of trying to develop the screenplay to get it to a place that felt comfortable,” Washington said. “And that was really Todd Black doing that. He [and] Virgil brought me a script in 2018 that I was moved by, which led me to want to direct the film.”'] movie when Jordan was 3 years old,” said Canedy of their first meeting. “So he knew me and my son not just as characters but as real people. And he got to know Charles as a real person through us.
"[Then] he called me one day and said, ‘Open your computer,’” she remembered. “And I said, ‘I’m in the supermarket.’ And he said, ‘Well, go home, open up your computer and type in this name: Chanté Adams.’” “Now she’s family, that’s my little sister,” said Canedy of the actress. “She really brought her heart and soul to this. And Mike as well. The first day I was on set, I brought a duffel bag of things — so he wore Charles’ actual dog tags that day, he held the actual journal and he saw the outfit that Jordan wore to his father’s funeral. All of this made the experience very personal for everybody involved, and because of that you see palpably in their performances a love story like no other.
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