Boots Riley

Yeah, and that I can write it in a way that we can shape it in a way where it does have its own specificity.

And I think maybe I was more reacting to how a lot of movies do, like

it's the George Clooney, it's George Clooney breaking into banks.

It's George Clooney being a sniper.

It's George Clooney.

And I was like, I don't want the, it's George Clooney doing this thing.

I want it to be this character, right?

And I think that what I've realized is that even though

the star of it all, stars, how big someone is, can make people come to a movie for that, then it's my job to make them forget what they know about that person, right?

What they know about that actor.

And it's also the actor's job.

So I'm picking people that can pull that off.

Oh, I saw how in other movies they were like, okay, she does this one thing.

or these two things, this certain cadence.

And they were like missing this whole other piece of her.

And not in all the things they did.

She's shown herself.

That's how I knew it, right?

And also I met with her.

And I could see this thing and her willingness to go there, you know.