We recently shared Candyman interviews with both director Nia DaCosta and co-writer/producer Jordan Peele, and today we’ve got some more video chats to share with you.
The videos you’ll find below feature interview snippets with stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Vanessa Williams, Teyonah Parris, and Colman Domingo, as well as producer Ian Cooper.
The cast talks about working with Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta on the film, while also previewing the characters we’ll be meeting later this month in the brand new franchise sequel.
“What I really love about what this film does, the updated “say my name” version of it, is that it really talks about so many topical… the politic of the day,” explains Vanessa Williams, who reprises the role of Anne-Marie McCoy from the original film. “Gentrification, what it means to be an artist, what it means to have a place in the world. Candyman is driven by his need for his story to be told. And so I think all those things resonate with us as an audience.”
“It’s not just about entertainment value, it’s also about making something that’s important. Making something that’s going to cause you to think… to have conversations,” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II notes. “We’re trying to do something that’s going to be classy, that’s going to really stand the test of time, and that’s going to be important to the zeitgeist of right now.”
You can watch these and other Candyman video interviews below.
In this year’s Candyman…
“For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.”
“With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.”
Candyman returns to theaters on August 27, 2021.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3676958/candyman-soundbites-interviews/
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