“That wasn’t something my parents did on summer vacations. “I had never been on a plantation before,” said the actress, referring to the Charleston, S.C., location where the film was shot. Like Berry, Guy said working on the movie was often painful. “I was re-enacting a part of history and I felt … like it was a responsibility that had been given to me to bring light in a dark place - something Alex used to always say.” And that was horrifying.”īerry said she held fast to the fact that Haley’s story was a true story. “Had I been born 100 years ago, this could have been my story. “I wanted `Queen’ more than anything so far in my career,” said the 24-year-old Berry. The $18 million production goes a long way toward making that point, despite some melodramatic drawbacks.Īnd it’s a story that still resonates a century after the fact, particularly for Berry and Guy, who have interracial backgrounds. Was deeply concerned that a lot of the light-skinned people were rejected by the darker-skinned people among the slave hierarchy and that they had no really defined place.” There were thousands upon thousands of children of the plantation - as they were called - they were children of mixed parentage, and nobody had really ever spoken on their behalf. “He saw Queen as representative of a vast body of dispossessed people.
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