"It's so much bigger than the screentime that all of us have. It's the art, it's just so poetic," said Herisse of the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a pair of young Black men trying to survive through their bid at an infamously horrific reform school in 1960s Florida. "There are just so many beautiful images that you get presented with while watching this movie and the addition of these characters in the story that's being told."
Needless to say, the Orion Pictures release, now in select theaters nationwide, was good. The film would go on to win countless critics awards after its world premiere at Telluride in December, including a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performer for Wilson, and a Gen Next award from African American Critics Association for him and Herisse.
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