While driving on a first date, Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya) are pulled over, ostensibly for a minor traffic violation. Find a flick with our guide to new and classic movies playing outdoors at L.A.-area drive-ins, pop-ups and rooftops. After the police officer escalates the situation, Slim takes his gun and shoots him. We saved all the wide shots until the end of the shoot. Can you tell us about some of the challenging aspects of shooting that? Kamala Harris will be the first female vice president, as well as the first Black and Asian American person to occupy that post. Matsoukas told Elle she'd actually scouted that very playground not a year before for a commercial and intentionally focused Queen & Slim in Ohio because of what had happened there. Earl and his niece have a complicated past, but there is love and loyalty between them, and their relationship is the first sign that Queen is more vulnerable than she’s let on. 2020 Bustle Digital Group. I like to create an authentic world and to show grittiness and darkness in a beautiful way and to highlight black culture. But it’s also very entertaining and tells a beautiful love story. But don’t delude yourself about the future. We created this film to honor brown and black bodies that were lost by the hands of law enforcement. When we brought her in to test, she completely held her own against Daniel, and we knew they would support and empower each other. Daniel was attached to the project from the beginning. This is my form of activism and fight. Then police lights flash behind them, and the man, who doesn’t drink, is pulled over and accused of being drunk. Movies In ‘Queen & Slim,’ a black love story blooms from panic and tragedy. Column: Celebrate Trump’s defeat. Our casting director, Carmen Cuba, brought Jodie to us, and I had worked with her before on a video and a commercial. We wanted to see people who are fighting back and represent us in a different way. Kamala Harris makes history many times over as vice president-elect. Queen and Slim is a daring reflection of the 21st century state of race and culture in America. By the time the fugitives reach the doorstep of Earl’s old war buddy, Mr. Shepherd, and his wife (played by Flea and Chloë Sevigny, respectively), Slim and Queen are the subject of a multistate manhunt, with their faces plastered all over TV, the internet and newspapers. Johnny Depp loses libel case against British tabloid that called him a ‘wife beater’. The Victorian era extravaganza “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” from writer-director David E. Talbert is set to be a holiday movie classic. "Black people are sometimes more celebrated in death than in life... That's why I feel like we could not let the people who have passed â the Sandra Blands and Eric Garners â die in vain," Matsoukas told The Atlantic. Matsoukas wanted to share the lived black experience with an audience and show them the guardedness that casts a pall over interactions non-POCs rarely have to consider. I purposefully stayed away from “Thelma and Louise” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” because there would be too many parallels. Things escalate, shots are fired, and the officer ends up dead. Cleveland was also the last stop of the underground railroad before Canada, so we had a lot of authentic reasons to shoot there. Queen and Slim take Edgar's truck and stop to get food. Queen and Slim's couple are united by the trauma of the film's inciting incident. "Queen & Slim," which was partially shot in Cleveland, is a gripping, sexy love story about two very different people on the run from the law after a traffic stop goes awry. Rather than cop killers, they’re merely victims of a corrupt police state who fought back against a racist cop and won. After court loss, Johnny Depp pushed out as Grindelwald in ‘Fantastic Beasts’. I want to be part of that important conversation and hopefully bring change to this world, which is so duly needed. "It's a diminishing way to describe our film, and a lazy way to understand it," she tells THR.