Ryan Coogler

But we got back together right before we went to college.

Yeah.

And what we would do, like, that summer before we left, because we was both on a scholarship.

She went to Fresno State.

I went to St.

Mary's, like I mentioned in there, Sacramento State.

what we would do is we would just work out together, um, to get ready for college.

And we'd go to the movies.

Like, that was it.

Like, we was either, we was either on the track working out in the waiting room, lifting weights, or we was, you know, we was, uh, uh, at the movies, you know, in Emeryville and Richmond and Oakland.

Um, and, and for us, we got really, uh,

used to just pushing each other and supporting each other, you know, being at each other's meets, her being at my football games.

She's incredibly shy, but like at my games, I could hear her voice, you know, while I was out there trying to catch touchdowns and everything.

I tried to do the same for her at our track meets.

And when I got interested in filmmaking, you know, she was just really supportive, you know, like I was writing screenplays in Microsoft Word and kind of like venting to her, like,

Man, one day I got this software that cost 300 bucks called Final Draft.

And, you know, maybe one day I could get that, you know what I mean?

So I got to adjust the margins and all of that.

And then she, you know, she set up her money, got that from me.

Um, and it wasn't just like here, baby, here goes the draft.