The new film “Zola” is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. The complicated comedy is based on the 2015 story told in 148 tweets by A’Ziah “Zola” King that began with the attention-grabbing lines “Y’all wanna hear a story about how me and this b— here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”
As she read further, her connection only deepened, taken in by the complicated voice with which King told her story as a way of processing the emotional horrors of what she had been through. That idea of protecting the voice of the real Zola became paramount to Bravo as she worked on the adaptation with her co-writer, Jeremy O. Harris. At the time they began the project together, Harris was still a student at Yale and had not yet written the Tony Award-nominated “Slave Play.”“I think there is a version of this story that has a little less care and attention to detail. There is a real tightrope that happens,” said Bravo. “Her story is super fun. It is a real ride.
Similar to themes Harris would go on to explore in “Slave Play,” the movie is specifically designed to trigger the different responses that white audiences and Black audiences will have to the story and its telling.“I actively considered it when working on the adaptation, but whether or not I was active in how I approached it, it was already there. The story is so much about race,” said Bravo. “It is a Black woman telling a story about how her and a white woman fall out.
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