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RBTV’s Mike D chats with producer/director REGINALD HUDLIN (Boomerang) about his latest movie MARSHALL, which hits theaters nationwide on October 13, 2017
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Reginald Hudlin directs this historical drama, set in 1941, with an apt blend of vigor and empathy. It stars Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, a thirty-three-year-old N.A.A.C.P. attorney who is dispatched to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to represent a black man, Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), who is accused of the rape and attempted murder of a wealthy white woman (Kate Hudson) for whom he worked as a chauffeur. As an out-of-state attorney, Marshall has to be paired with a local lawyer; his reluctant partner, Sam Friedman (Josh Gad), is an insurance specialist with no defense experience. Meanwhile, the judge hearing the case high-handedly bars Marshall from speaking in court, reducing him to Friedman’s silent counsel. Much of the action is set in the courtroom, where Hudlin (working with a script by the Bridgeport attorney Michael Koskoff and his son, the screenwriter Jacob Koskoff) lends physical energy to the language of ideas. He ties the dialectical action to Marshall’s energetic and plainspoken brilliance—and to the behind-the-scenes insights of Marshall’s wife, Buster (Keesha Sharp), and a random woman he meets in a bar. Meanwhile, the movie urgently dramatizes the threat of racist violence that poisons personal relationships and judicial proceedings alike.
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NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 23: (L-R) Actors Sterling K. Brown, Kate Hudson, Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad attend the 21st Annual Urbanworld Film Festival at AMC Empire 25 theater on September 23, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by J. Countess/WireImage)
While the world is perched on the edge of its seat for Chadwick Boseman’s turn in Marvel’s Black Panther, film-goers will get to see him in the upcoming movie Marshall, about a young Thurgood Marshall (the first African-American Supreme Court Justice) as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. Alongside Boseman, heavyweights Sterling K. Brown, Kate Hudson and Josh Gad also star.
We spoke with the legendary director of the film, Reginald Hudlin, who also directed classics House Party, Boomerang and episodes of Modern Family and The Office. Hudlin also served as the President of BET from 2005 to 2008. Speaking on what he hopes people will take from the movie, Hudlin said:
“When they see the movie, they’ll laugh a lot, they’ll cry a lot but they’ll leave inspired…People want a message of hope and [ our message is that], we can come together as allies. We don’t have to be from the same place, we don’t have to believe in all the same things, but if we believe in truth, truth can be a weapon for freedom.”
Marshall is released in cinemas October 13th.
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