Ryan Coogler

And I realized that this scene was the midpoint.

Donald and me are like, these people, the real people, not in my script, but the real people that they based on, these black folks in 1930s who were of age to be in this juke joint, they were living in Clarksdale during Jim Crow.

They all were sharecroppers because it was nothing else that the society allowed them to be.

Their grandparents were enslaved.

Their children, their children's children will still be sharecroppers.

But somehow they invented, you know, probably the most impactful American contribution to global popular culture.

And they invented it just because they wanted to feel alive for a few hours, you know, Friday and Saturday night.

You know, and they had no, I don't think they had any idea that the music that they listened to

would change the world.

So I thought about that.

I said, man, I'm about to kill him by vampires.

I got to have something else in the movie that is some type of victory moment.

And that was where the idea of depicting just how powerful and transcendent Sami's voice

If it could call a vampire, you know, maybe it could call these people's ancestors and descendants too.

So I wrote the script.

I wrote it all in italics.

I clicked italics on it and I kept it all in one chunk.

Wow.

You know, like, like almost like a stream of consciousness and left it like that in the script for, for, you know, for when my partner's ready and everybody ready to know to, to, to really, you know, you know, read that, read that differently, you know?

I mean, it was everybody working like in concert with each other.