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And listen to hip-hop!
To paraphrase Walt Whitman, I am large, I contain multitudes.
You make a choice by the story that you write.
You seemed to have a very intentional idea behind that.
It was such a gift.
Gary was so wonderful in how generous he was with his knowledge.
I was on set every day, sitting by his side at the monitor.
Thats one of the joys of an ensemble movie like this.
We were very much on the same page about that.
There wasnt really anything that was having to be fought for because we were so in agreement.
Its something I had never seen before.
I think those were the moments where it would really dawn on him.
And he would kind of look at me and laugh!
A lot of the women on the team actually know each other.
They ground the movie in a similar way.
When youre with women like these actresses, they bring their own flavor to it.
I felt like it was almost healing when the trailer came out.
I dont think it was surprising to most women, but we were being inundated with that truth.
Ultimately youre telling a story about people and about human beings.
We were very excited to have this group of people onscreen together.
The fact that it istheseeight women and that they are legends.
That was very much the standard that we were trying to hold for ourselves.
That is what was really at the top of our minds when we were thinking about it.
