Tag cast hate1/20/2024 ![]() The late rapper Tupac Shakur only saw 25 birthdays. I was very excited to be a part of it, in the rehearsals watching it come together." "So that's just a testament to George and everyone at Fox in the casting. It's not necessarily what I would've thought, and I know that there were people who were like, 'I don't know about that,'" Hall said. When we were shooting, I was like, 'Oh, of course!' I couldn't see anyone else. George was so clear, and he was so smart in his vision of the movie. Even Anthony as the villain - there were all these pieces of the puzzle. "Then they brought on Common, and Issa as the activist lawyer. I thought of the cast that George was putting together, and I was like, 'Huh? That's an interesting cast.' I thought, 'Are people going to think Starr looks like me?' Hall told Shadow and Act. Though the veteran actress trusted Tillman’s vision, watching the film come together as the rest of the cast came onboard was a thrilling experience. "I was excited! Russell was doing it, and Amandla. Then I went and met with the executives at Fox, and everyone said, 'Yes.'" I read the script and thought that they did a great job with the adaptation-because that's hard. I was more than halfway through the book, and then the script came. A year passed and George called, and they sent the book over. "I didn't know that it had a green light, nor was I sure that the studio was going to approve me for the part. And after we wrapped, George said, 'You know, there's a project that I really think you'd be great for,'" Hall revealed. During the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Shadow and Act sat down to chat with the Hall about bringing a black teen girl’s experience of police brutality and injustice to the big screen. The novel and film chronicle Starr's experiences with law enforcement, her school and her community, after she watches her childhood friend get gunned down by a police officer. She was cast as Lisa Carter, the loving but no-nonsense mother of protagonist Starr Carter, quite by chance. Regina Hall didn’t expect to be a part of the film adaptation of Angie Thomas’ explosive novel, The Hate U Give. ![]() Then I was able to sell it to Fox at that point." We went through how I saw the movie, the important characters, the voice, the theme. I had to get on the phone with her right away. "The way (Angie) caught that, and the themes - I was just blown away. "As I kept reading it, the dialogue and the language reminded me of a party I went to years ago in my high school times, and a shooting happened," Tillman recalled. She says, 'I don't know if I'm supposed to be at this party.' She was uncomfortable, and I thought, 'Wow, I’ve never seen a story about a young 16-year-old, African American dealing with identity issues.'" "The first chapter starts off at the party where Starr's hanging out. "I didn't have a lot of time, but I did read the first chapter," he said. I went out to Brooklyn, and the book came to me in my second week of shooting." I was working with Cheo Hodari Coker, who I did Notorious with. "Angie was still in the process of editing the book. "When the book came to me it wasn't published," Tillman told Shadow and Act. For Tillman, the entry point into Starr’s world was first sparked by Thomas’ novel. The narrative centers around Black teenager Starr Carter, and her experiences participating in activism paralleling the Black Lives Matter movement.įollowing the film's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Shadow and Act sat down to chat with Tillman about why this was a story he felt compelled to tell, and what he’s uncovered over the course of his career. Now the prolific filmmaker is bringing Angie Thomas’ stunning novel The Hate U Give to the big screen. He's directed Notorious and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, and he’s also worked diligently as a producer films like Mudbound and the Barbershop franchise. has been telling stories that enable people to deeply examine their own lives and their connections with others. Since the mega success of 1997’s Soul Food, director George Tillman Jr.
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