It's about the relationship she has with this old black man who finds her beat up on the side of the road, nurses her back to health and he tries to help her. What is the story behind "Black Snake Moan"?īrewer: It's about this young white girl - I don't like the word nymphomaniac - but she suffers from this intense sexual addiction through these panic attacks she gets.
I just urge them to, every once in a while, take a risk.ĪP: Your next film is even more risky. I don't really have any hard feelings toward anyone. Taraji Henson and DJ Qualls of the film 'Hustle and Flow' poses for portraits during the 2005. I'm new and we wanted to make (the film) in a different way with new actors. Actors Anthony Anderson, Elise Neal, Terence Howard. There was this wonderful line of people to shake my hand and say "egg on our face." That felt good. "Hustle & Flow" is for everybody who wants to reboot and I think that's why people connected with it.ĪP: How vindicating was the Sundance response to the film?īrewer: It was very interesting to be standing up in front of the audience at Sundance and there are all the people who said no - two or three times. Of course it's within your right to try and change your life. I'm closer to the end than I am to the beginning and is it OK for me to reboot?" Of course it's OK for you to reboot. Everybody has thought, "I've been moving away from that dream that I had when I was a younger person, like an inch every day and now I'm on the other side of the room and I don't know if it's even possible for me to return to that time ever again.
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That's really what "Hustle & Flow" was about, we just changed it to rap and made the character a pimp.ĪP: Why do you think the movie has such broad appeal?īrewer: I think everybody has related to DJay. And really, this movie changed us and saved us from this crazy life we were living in Memphis. I was writing in this bar and working in receiving at a bookstore. My wife was working as a seamstress and then she started working as a stripper. So my wife and I would build these sets inside our house and we'd have to quiet down the neighbors and it was a very difficult time for us. Just celebrate the fact that you don't have that much money. I had my father, at the age of 49, die rather unexpectedly of a heart attack and literally his last words to me were you should do this script you wrote, this "Poor and Hungry" script, and don't shoot it on film. Brewer: "Hustle & Flow " is actually about me and my wife making that first movie.
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