up to society, exist. “The history that is just as horrific as the monsters we made up, all of that has been buried,” Green says. “One of the reasons for my love for the project and my excitement to do the project was uncovering all of these things that we have not been told when we center a narrative just around whiteness.”
In this case, it’s shining a light on one of the darkest chapters not only in American history but also for African American and Black culture, and “what it was to be a part of an affluent, educated, forward-moving community,” Majors says. “We show that and then we show what happened to it, the fact that they were thriving and then they were squelched.”
And while it’s easy to depict the violence and bloodshed suffered by the Black residents of the Greenwood District, Watson says the series wanted to go beyond that. “Tulsa 1921 was a huge talking point, and the most important elements we wanted to show were that the Black community was thriving, also that they didn’t just flee,” he says. “Many of them stood and fought back. It was important to highlight this cinematically.
“There were lots of moving parts to those scenes. Working with fire can be very challenging for all involved,” Watson recalls. “I remember all of the safety precautions that were taken to protect the crew and the talent. There were many layers to those scenes, like the choreography of the fight scene, and the pre-visualization of Leti’s bomb walk as I called it.
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