Ryan Coogler

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.

She was like, Hey, yo, where's that script at?

You know, it was that thing you working on.

Um, you know, the athletic mindset.

Uh, so, so, so how it works is, you know, I always talk to her about what I'm thinking about working on and she'll, I kind of hone my pitch with her.

Um, she'll be the first person to read, you know, what I, what I write, give me feedback.

Um, so my scripts are always going, I really, really hone at the early stages in my career and, and,

Um, the film school, she was with me, um, you know, all the time.

She would enter all the classes with me as she work on, work on the sets, you know, um, producing and sometimes operating the camera, you know, um, if I had to jump in, um, you know, so, so it was that kind of support and it just, it just kind of stayed that way.

Through Fruitvale when we shot at home.

That was when we first moved in and started living together.