'The Inspection's Elegance Bratton, Jeremy Pope & Gabrielle Union on the Importance of the Film's Message

In writer-director Elegance Bratton’s directorial debut The Inspection, which held its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, he explores themes of self-identity and belonging, based on his own true experiences. Following young Marine Corps recruit Ellis French , Bratton chronicles the raw and personal story of French’s journey to self-acceptance through his time in the military during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era.

POPE: I'm going to piggyback that. If you want to get to know me, you need to watch The Inspection because I'm in the season of championing Elegance, and it comes out November 18th, and I want you all to be in the theater to see it.POPE: So that feels very pressing, and special in my heart right now. I would love to gift whomever out there to see The Inspection.UNION: No, I think for me, to know me as an individual, you got to watch Bring It On. That's pretty much me in real life.

Then I get to the Marine Corps and I find out I'm valuable because I can protect the person to my left and to my right. That empowered me. I didn't expect to find that empowerment in that way in bootcamp, but I did. I just feel like in this moment we're living in, where things are so polarized between conservative and liberal and Democrat, Republican, male, female, black and white, we need something that can start a conversation between both sides.

I'm always looking to work with creatives that are just doing special and unique work, and that's where he was at in his life. We really just got to have a conversation about what does it mean to be an artist? What does it mean to be a Black, queer artist? And how we want to use our voices, and our truths, and our pain to be something bigger for other people, to be that beacon of representation, or something that's tangible for someone out there to go, “I'm going to be okay.

There's a very powerful scene in this movie in the third act, in a hallway, and I know it must have been a challenging day on set to film that scene. I don't know how much you want to say about it because I'm trying to be guarded with spoilers, but can you sort talk about filming that sequence because it's so emotional, and it's raw, and it feels so honest.POPE: I think what it is is, this is a very unique filming experience for I think all of us.

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