“I was having the exact same conversations with Black colleagues in both professions: Why are we always writing about misery and trauma and violence and pain inflicted on Blacks? Why is this what people expect from us? Why is this the only thing we have to offer to culture?” “I worked as a journalist for eight or nine years before working in television,” he added. “All the conversations that the book was having were conversations I was having with my friends and had been having for decades,” Jefferson, who was an editor for Gawker before transitioning into TV, said in an interview.
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Leigh, he dashes off a manuscript of thug life trauma porn titled “My Pafology” that - surprise - immediately sells and gets bought for movie rights. Monk, played with acerbic perfection and delightful disgust by Wright, writes as a drunken lark, a book intended to parody the kinds that sell and cater to white audiences’ view of Black people. Brown in a scene from "American Fiction." (Claire Folger/MGM-Orion Releasing via AP) In the film, Monk (Wright), is a frustrated author who’s agent (John Ortiz) tells him his books - the latest of which is a reworking of Aeschylus’ “The Persians” - aren’t “Black enough.” “I’m Black,” he responds, “and this is my book.” This image released by MGM shows Sterling K. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, too.Īs quick as that, Cord Jefferson - the 41-year-old TV writer of “Succession,” “Master of None” and “Watchmen” - began working toward his directing debut, “American Fiction.” And just as speedily, following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, “American Fiction” became a breakout hit of the festival, launching Jefferson as a major new voice in movies.
Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book’s academic protagonist, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison. TORONTO (AP) - Fifty pages into Percival Everett’s “Erasure” Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script.
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