“Because I’m working with someone like Lakeith, who has a very sharp tool at his disposal and can carve the things I ask him to carve, we could root the performance in realism and believability and subtlety. It’s really important that all these weird things that happen in our movie happen not for the sake of being weird or eye candy, that they happen because I’m trying to solve a problem in trying to relate an idea or an emotion and that’s where those weird things happen.” — Boots Riley, on making SORRY TO BOTHER YOU*
Writer-director Boots Riley and actors Lakeith Stanfield and Terry Crews will participate in a Q & A after a weekend screening of SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, an uproarious farce that blends the social satire of Justin Simien’s film Dear White People (2014) with Michel Gondry’s surrealist fantasies.
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, opens Thursday evening, July 5.
BOOTS RILEY, LAKEITH STANFIELD, and TERRY CREWS Q & A
Saturday, July 7, after the 8:45 pm Cinerama Dome show.
ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
arclightcinemas.com/sorry-to-bother-you-qa
Lakeith Stanfield (left) and Danny Glover in Sorry to Bother You. Image credit: Annapurna Pictures.
