Delroy Lindo

I had to because...

My mom deserved it.

And not only is my mom deserving, all, by extension, all the people of the Windrush generation are deserving.

Because stories about Windrush are not part of global cultural lexicon commensurate with its impact.

The people of Windrush changed the definition of what it means to be British.

There are all these black and brown people, theretofore members of what used to be called the British Commonwealth.

And they were invited by the British government to come to England, the United Kingdom, to help rebuild the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the destruction of World War II.

My mom was part of that movement.

Yeah, yeah.

They helped rebuild construction, construction industry, transportation industry, critically, the health industry, the NHS, the National Health Service.

My mom was a nurse.

And when I was going into...

The reason that I went into NYU was because my original intention was to write a screenplay about my mom.

I wanted to write a screenplay about my mom because I looked around and I thought, huh, where are the feature films?

that have as protagonist a Caribbean female, a black female.

Where are they?

Now, there may be some out there, and I've seen one not directed by a black person, but I wanted to address that.

I wanted to correct what I see as being an imbalance.

My mom's name is Anna Cynthia Moncrief.

Sometimes she would go by Luna Moncrief, and that's a whole other story.