ComingSoon spoke to Ebony Obsidian about starring in The Six Triple Eight. The actress mentioned her position within the movie, working with Tyler Perry, and extra. The World Conflict II drama is now streaming on Netflix.
“The Six Triple Eight is impressed by the primary and solely Ladies’s Military Corps unit of colour to serve abroad in WWII. Regardless of going through racism and sexism – and grueling working circumstances – they had been dedicated to serving their nation with honor and distinction. Given a rare mission and united of their willpower, these unsung heroes delivered hope and shattered boundaries. Written and directed by Tyler Perry, the movie stars Kerry Washington as Main Charity Adams, the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Listing Battalion,” says the synopsis.
Tyler Treese: You’re enjoying a real-life hero on this, Lena King. She sadly handed away earlier this yr on the age of 100, which is unimaginable. Did you get the possibility to fulfill her and discuss together with her?
Ebony Obsidian: Completely, yeah, I did. I met her. She handed away simply shy of her a hundred and first birthday, by the best way. So I met her on her a hundredth birthday for the primary time. And that was unimaginable, to spend time together with her and her household and so many individuals who cherished her, her associates who’re 20, 30 years youthful than her, by the best way. That was a life-changing expertise to see somebody who has lived that a lot life and overcame that a lot but additionally stored area for a lot pleasure and pleasure and curiosity for all times. That was lovely.
Yeah, I noticed some panels together with her, and her recall was simply prompt.
She’s so sharp.
She nonetheless was all collectively. Once you’re portraying an actual particular person, clearly that provides a weight to the efficiency, however how did that like influence your artistic course of?
You already know, I used to be much more enthusiastic about who Lena was as an individual, versus stressing myself out with what place she has within the movie. For me, it was, “This can be a 17-year-old lady who knew nothing in regards to the world, not to mention World Conflict II. This can be a lady who was not but a lady however would turn into by the tip of the movie, and by the tip of that chapter in her life due to Charity Adams, due to all the ladies within the battalion.” So it simply actually resonated with me on a deeper stage that I feel by the point that I met her, had these conversations together with her, any stressors or strain that I had actually was not associated to how magnificent this movie is, and I’m very pleased with it, however actually was nailing down who’s she? What’s her aura? I feel she’s really, she was very related at 100 as she would have been at 17 as a result of there’s a real purity to her that I can solely think about solely existed all through her whole life.
That’s actually great, and you probably did an incredible job portraying that. You’ve clearly labored with Tyler Perry earlier than on Sistas, however that is very completely different in tone, and I feel this film’s gonna actually shock individuals, I feel. So how was it seeing him deal with such a severe historic subject and do it with such grace?
Completely, sure. We did. We labored collectively on one other present, and that was, I imply, technically talking, I had labored with him over 100 instances as a result of it was episodic. So I had a really clear sense of the kind of creator that he’s and the way clear he’s on his objectives when he’s telling a narrative and when he does resolve to take it on.
So when he introduced this script to me, I knew that he needed to honor these ladies and that that was the mutual factor that everybody concerned within the undertaking was going to have. We wish to honor these ladies. We wish to give them the voice that they by no means had and provides them the celebration that they by no means had all of these years in the past. It was completely different within the sense that, a sequence is shot in a different way, in fact, than a movie. However one, you might have the whole story. One other, you sort of be taught the story as you go, however both method, he’s a really, very clear artistic as a producer, as a author, as a director, and in order that was the identical.
Because of Ebony Obsidian for taking the time to speak about The Six Triple Eight.
