young. A year after it came out, I had spinal surgery and was with my father, and he knew I loved Elizabeth Berkley so he got the DVD for me while I was recovering. We both watched it together and it was really so not a great experience for either of us, but I thought it was so funny, because my dad’s gaze was down for so much of it and we shouldn’t have been watching it together.
In the first rough cut of the movie, it was a scene that felt superfluous, but I fought for it. We tested the scene at a small screening, and it got a big reaction. If you were to talk to Jeremy O. Harris, my co-writer, he would tell you that’s one of the handful of ideas I pitched in the beginning and his first response was, “I don’t get it, but it obviously means something to you.”
Going to NYU was the first time I had been away from home and independent, and I remember so clearly going into these bars in the East Village and going to the bathroom with girlfriends, and hovering over the toilet like my mother taught me, and my girlfriends who were oftentimes white just sitting on the toilet, and it being really anthropologically fascinating to me. I thought, Wow, we were raised so differently.
It really sticks for me because at this point in the movie, so much has happened to her. She’s come close to death so many times, she shouldn’t be here. But she is because, ultimately, she is kind of a superhero. She’s more than human. This scene is so radical because the Coffy you meet at the beginning of the movie is a woman who’s really good at doing the math. The Zola you meet at the beginning of the movie is a woman who’s very good at doing the math. She tends to be one step ahead.
He almost gets her, but then it’s revealed that he’s got another woman upstairs and she’s like, I gotta shoot him in the dick. Classic. That’s another link to, too—it’s obviously funny, and it’s speaking to Blaxploitation cinema, which is kind of like the ‘70s “Marvel universe” of sorts. That scene really encapsulated a lot of the emotional tenor of, there aren’t just one or two feelings, there are five or six—and they’re also funny, and uncomfortable, and distressing.
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