From Love & Basketball to The Woman King, Gina Prince-Bythewood aims to see herself reflected on screen
, and I had him come and do the songs, while Terence Blanchard did the score. I remember the first song that he sent was for a battle dance. I was so hyped about that. They were absolutely authentic; I wanted the songs to be in the language of these women, which is Fon, the only time we really use the actual language, as everything else is accented English. I did want that element within the film because it’s a beautiful language, it’s cultural, and it just sounds cool.
AVC: And who took to that training naturally? There were some actors who’ve never done anything like this before. Do they approach something like this as more actor than athlete?] The absolute truth is—it’s funny, people have asked me, “Viola, how did she keep up with these younger folk?” When we all started training together, Viola had been training for a couple of months before.
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