got the Disney Drive-In Series experience over the weekend, when industry voters packed the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to watch the series finale on the big screen and three of the major creative forces behind the show joined me – virtually of course, although some even showed for the pre-show in person- for a conversation following.The suburban set-show is about what happens when a black mother and her teenage daughter moves into a affluent white Ohio suburb.
“I read the book and there were so many connectivity moments for me, ” Tigelaar told me. “It was something that spoke to me right now, to do a story about motherhood where you really get to explore being a mom and what that’s like. It felt like such a gift at the time and obviously through the lens of race and class.”Neustadter agreed and points out the subtlety of the approach.
Savone talks about the changes from book to screen including the major decision to cast Washington and change the ethnicity of the character to being a black woman bringing up her daughter alone. “We were really lucky to explore all these questions of race and class,” she said which confirming that Ng was on board with the changes but felt that she could not authentically specify race when she wrote the book.
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