"I hate giving flowers because of how it makes me feel," Safe Elghorab admits while putting together a flower arrangement with his friends. His friends see this admission as an opening to unpack Safe's honest take. "How does it make you feel? Let's talk about it!" "Just always ask why," another friend, Chui, recommends, and soon, the men are unpacking why Safe "hates" giving flowers. "Why does it make you feel vulnerable?"
The reason I'm here is because Jordan Peele saw Kicks' and loved it, Tipping said during a phone interview. Around the time that was being released he had won an Academy Award (best original screenplay for Get Out) and had just started Monkeypaw Productions. He wanted to meet young filmmakers and wanted to meet me. So the seed was planted.
I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out a lot, who became one of my favourite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant.