Over 7 seasons and 89 episodes of “Queen Sugar,” Ava DuVernay hired only women to helm each episode. Here’s the impact it had on 5 of those directors.
Davis had never met DuVernay, but she knew the director was just coming off her breakthrough film, “Selma.” DuVernay also was developing a series for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network based on Natalie Baszile’s 2014 novel “Queen Sugar.”,” the 2001 independent film she co-directed starring a pre-“Scandal” Kerry Washington. “Wondering,” she asked.
Her first episode was the eighth of the first season, “Where With All.” As a hurricane approaches, tensions heighten between family members. It’s then that they gather to play a card game, spades, at Aunt Vi’s house. “I would paint the cup with the syrup,” says Glaudé. “I never worked at Starbucks or anything, but I would do, like, a little barista action, you know, and get them right and just make sure they were comfortable and they had what they need. Coffee was just a byproduct to be close to the camera, to be able to learn from all these different directors likeEventually, DuVernay told Glaudé it was time.
Cardoso was in Ikea shopping for furniture when DuVernay called to recruit her. After she hung up, she began crying. “One of the things that’s so great is that some of the shows you go on, you’re the only woman in the room,” she says. “You’re sort of asked to prove that you deserve to be there. Here, there was a camaraderie among the other directors and writers and the crew. This wasn’t like, ‘Prove me wrong.’ It was ‘Welcome.’ ”
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