Everyone Is Talking To Barry Jenkins But Our Interview Is The Best

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Just kidding. But seriously, "Moonlight," Jenkins' new film, is the movie of the moment. Gene talks with him about what it took to get the movie made, what it was like to film in the Miami projects where he grew up, and - yep - the theme of black masculinity.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all heads up, the following episode contains offensive language, like this.
0:14.6	What's good y'all? I'm Jean Demby.
0:16.3	And I'm Shireen Maraiso Maraji and this is Code Switch, the Moonlight Edition.
0:21.1	I'm all that fat I get, you know.
0:27.1	You could be gay but you got a lot of nobody calling your fat.
0:33.2	You mean less.
0:36.0	How do I know?
0:39.2	You just do.
0:41.9	I think.
0:43.3	You know, you know.
0:45.3	Jean, I haven't seen Moonlight but that clip gets me.
0:49.9	There's so much emotion there.
0:51.7	Oh my god. Isn't it somber? Isn't it like a-
0:53.9	It is somber.
0:54.8	Why did you choose that clip to start with?
0:58.0	Because I was trying to make you feel sad.
0:59.3	Yeah, well good job.
1:00.8	No, I mean one, I'm about to interview Barry Jenkins, who's the director of Moonlight,
1:05.9	which I'm excited about.
1:07.0	But it's really hard to boil down this movie to a thesis statement,
1:10.7	like to like say what this movie is specifically trying to tackle.
1:14.4	But that scene was like really heartbreaking.
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