Ryan Coogler

It's so cool.

It wasn't that long ago.

That's kind of like what the movie is saying.

It's actually like I cheated him for younger because if the character would have actually been Buddy's age, it would have put the movie into the 2000s.

It would have put it in 2002 as opposed to 1992.

which would have put the fashion like it is today.

So it would have probably confused.

It did.

Well, yeah, like, so the history of how the Blues kind of became this instrument of, like, global cultural change was really interesting.

Like, the Delta Blues-

When the record industry came, they made those records, race records.

And this was a time where, you know, the country was segregated.

And the record industry was a product of that.

So they would kind of put race records over here, anything made by a black person.

The same record made by a white person, I'd call that maybe rock and roll or bluegrass or country.

And black musicians, when...

The record industry was burgeoning.

They couldn't tour.

But their records would travel overseas.

And a lot of bands in Europe kind of fell in love with the music, like maybe most famously the Rolling Stones, for instance, or the Beatles.