Pushkin. There's this one moment where her blood father kneels down at her side when she's a tiny little girl and he's about to leave her with his uncle forever and he says to her

know that you are loved and one of the reasons why I wanted that in that film is

because I think that that's something that my father wanted to instill in all of his kids because you know when the

shit is hitting the fan and and when the world is making you feel like you don't have any value and what you have to

offer doesn't have any value.

That there's a kind of core resilience inside which has been built from the

understanding that from being very small that you are loved, have value. That was Amma Ashante. I'm San Frigoso and this is

Talk Easy. Welcome to the show. Ama Ashante was born in 1969 London, Tagani and parents. Her father was an accountant. Her mother ran a deli. She was a child actress on the hit British television show

Grange Hill and then soon after while her friends went off to college she

began to write.

She may have not known it at the time, but her ability to write would eventually land her

jobs writing scripts and then ultimately into directing.

I'll say, she seems like the type of person who had a good idea of her talent early on.

She made her directorial debut in 2004 with a film called A Way of Life.

She then came back years later for a film called Bell, which I think to date is her most popular picture.

Then in 2016 a United Kingdom, which brings us to

this past weekend where her latest film where Hans' Touch is out in theaters around the country.

It tells the real life story of two teenagers. is out in theaters around the country.

It tells the real life story of two teenagers, one black, one white,

as they survive in Nazi Germany all the while falling in love.

Here's a bit from the trailer.

We are looking for the gun.

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