Black-ish creator Kenya Barris speaks candidly to V.F.'s Joypress about creating a universe of BlackExcellence at Netflix
which sparked Tiffany Haddish’s ascendancy. He has half a dozen major movie screenplays in the works and at least as many television projects. His work is funny and rich enough for Michelle Obama to callher favorite show, while Donald Trump rage-tweeted, “How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled ‘Blackish’? Can you imagine the furor of a show, ‘Whiteish’! Racism at highest level?” Clearly, Barris is doing something, and possiblyright.
Barris has never acted professionally before, on top of which he’s making a show about his family at a time when, off-screen, he is in the midst of a divorce from his wife, Rania Edwards-Barris, M.D. All this might be adding to his sense of precariousness. Barris had initially planned to cast an actor in thelead but found inspiration in one of his heroes, Larry David, who emerged from behind the scenes ofPlaying himself, says Barris, was also a way to do “something I wasafraid of.
That moment at the valet was inspired by a real experience with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Barris didn’t think that the mogul was being condescending, he says, “but in my mind, all I heard was, ‘Hey, look at the black guy spending all his money on a car!’ I wanted to take it and burn it up in the middle of fucking Fairfax.” But it’s a no-win situation. “If I pull up in a shitty car, I’m a black dude in a shitty car.
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