Even before being sacrificed a role in Black mirror Season 7, Issa Rae says he was tune in Netflix’s drama for some of the most beautifully distressing episodes. Or maybe “distressingly beautiful” is how it should be fine.
Duration A recent round table conversation attended by the decision maker, RAE opened to make his own totally original Black mirror Love Story, “Hotel Reverie”, one who expects will be considered by fans there on the same level as one of his own favorites, “San Junipero”.
In that delivery of season 4, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis star in two visitors to a beach city who visit the fictitious location by the sea to escape. There, they form an unlikely relationship that covers time, space and technology.
For that reason, the comparisons between “San Junipero” and “Hotel Reverie” were imminent, especially due to the love aspect of each episode. On the ladder, it is RAE whose character has been digitally fallen in an old Hollywood movie and falls in love with the main actress, Dorothy (Emma Corrin). The actress and creator said she couldn’t help signing for the project.
“It’s very now,” the Insecure The creator explained or his episode. “I read it [the script] Just after the strike ended, so many of the issues were relevant to the things that the actors and writers were fighting for and that, that attracted me in addition to the love story. “
In the episode, the modern actress Brandy (RAE) ends up trapped in the film that is destined to recreate digitally with the help of AI, which leads to a love story that plays the film is remade with Brandy in the studio for the characters of Awina and Harmrieties and the characters of Harrieties.
“It reminded me of some of my favorite episodes,” he added. “There is an element that reminded me of that in addition to my favorite episodes,” San Junipero “and” Vipers striking. “Like my favorite Black mirror Episodes“ Where it was almost self -referential in many ways, to Nubbin. Alone, I was excited about that. “
He did not arrive without his challenges, since the role requested that he be seen as a white male actor in the 1940s. He provided a unique and multicapa experience for RAE as an actress, writer and creator who has previously worked mainly in comedy. With programs and films such as Insecure” Barbieand Little Under your credit, Black mirror He gave the opportunity to play in a new sand box.
“I was more afraid to enter this world of the 1940s and, like the reach of embodying this actor. And I felt like brandy where it was like, ‘that’s fine, so I am not British, I am a black woman who only rolled in the 1940s in this movie. Like, what settings are being done, if there is any?
He added that working with director Haolu Wang, “was more focused on establishing this romance and this connection and making Brandy a fish out of this environment and was an adventure.”
Black mirror Season 7 is currently being broadcast on Netflix.