with question marks, and so I DMed him back and said Does no one have your story?
This one was really an invitation from the people involved, and that really moved me.
I think for me this is13thin narrative form.
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So the first part is all about police interaction, precinct behavior, bail.
Its asking us to engage and really think about all of our assumptions.
Altogether, it ends up being about five hours long.
A project tells you what it wants to be, right?
As a CBS News intern in Los Angeles, you helped covered the O.J.
experience taught me as a young intern is to go further.
News is not the end-all be-all.
News is the invitation to ask the next question.
What I do think?
Did you discuss that much on set?Oh yeah quite a few.
All but one of the boys were just 14 or 15 at the time they were accused in 1989.
Was it hard to put your young actors playing them through some of the more brutal scenes?
My goal was just to ensure the boys were very well-educated about the case.
It really felt like it meant something to them, so the hard parts didnt feel so tough.
Its exactly what you just said.
To say, Ah, theyre just kids?
That never seems to be what we allow for black and brown kids.
So that was a big part of what we wanted to do here.
Look at the trans community, how much our views and nation has changed in the last five years.
Theres something about storytelling.
He figured into theirparents story.
They really werent listening to him in that way.
[It was] very little.
They were focused on just getting through their day to day.
Were you maybe looking to maybe lighten up your soul a little bit after all this?
But yeah, I got a lot brewing.
So if thats something about injustice or thats something more beautiful, if its got my attention.
