Explore "sanaa lathan" with insightful episodes like "EXPLORING CINEMA: Love & Basketball (2000)", "Brown Sugar", "Love & Basketball, ft. Shar Jackson", "Love & Basketball" and "Liara Tamani — Love & Basketball" from podcasts like ""Speak Film and Enter", "The Rom-Com Room", "The Rom-Com Room", "Chick Flicks with Gabby & Amy" and "This Movie Changed Me"" and more!
In this episode it's another installment of Exploring Cinema! This week we wrap up the month of February with the 2000 sports romance from writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood, "Love & Basketball", starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps. Listen now!
This week in “The Rom-Com Room,” Kendra and Mercedes get into one of the best friends-to-lovers rom-coms, BROWN SUGAR. As Kendra puts it, this movie feels like a special club—so we cordially invite you to join us, as the ladies (for the first time) cannot find it in their hearts to ghost anyone in this movie. I mean, Taye Diggs in cable-knit…need we say more?!
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This week in “The Rom-Com Room,” we've got something special for you—in honor of March Madness, Kendra and Mercedes nerd it up about the sports romance classic, LOVE & BASKETBALL. But first, the ladies chat with the inimitable Shar Jackson—about everything from her experience on the set of LOVE & BASKETBALL, to her bestie Justin Timberlake. Tune in to hear Shar spill it all, and then listen on to find out why Kendra and Mercedes have so little to roast about this movie, why it’s such an important rom-com for the representation it brings with each rewatch, and how this movie inspired Issa Rae…can you imagine a world without it?! We can’t!
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Gabby and Amy discuss Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball, a seminal romantic drama that is superficially a sports movie, but in actuality tackles love, family dynamics, career aspirations, and the meaning of success.
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball tells the story of two talented athletes who weave in and out of each other’s lives as they pursue big dreams. Monica Wright (played by Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy McCall (played by Omar Epps) are sometimes friends, enemies, lovers, and competitors. Writer Liara Tamani first saw the movie in 2000 when she was a reluctant student at Harvard Law School. She says Monica’s dedication to pursuing what she loved was a revelation for her. “When [Monica] turned around and looked at Quincy and their child, I almost felt like she was reaching through the screen, asking me, ‘So what you ’bout to do?’”
Liara Tamani is the author of the acclaimed Calling My Name, which was a 2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist and SCBWI Golden Kite Finalist, and All the Things We Never Knew, which was a 2020 Kirkus Best YA Book of the Year. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College and lives in Houston.
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This week, Tre’vell and Jarrett are addressing some of your #FANTIFam Mail.
We'll delve a bit deeper into some of our most recent FANTI topics and answer some of your questions (and concerns) we've received from you via email, Twitter and our IG DMs.
DIS/Honorable Mentions
This week, we give an honorable mention to Jackée Harry who carried the entire cast of Sister Sister on her back like a mink stole.
An dishonorable mention for Jessica Krug aka Jessica La Bamba for playing in Black folk's faces to the point of pretending to be Afro-Latinx. Stahp it.
Another dishonorable mention for gender reveal parties and the destruction that they create.
An honorable mention for the cast of this week's Zoom Where it Happens featuring Sanaa Lathan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Regina King, Alfree Woodard, Lena Waithe and Jesse Williams and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
Lastly, oxtails. Just because.
Show Notes
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This week we are so lucky to be joined by the groundbreaking and phenomenal director, Gina Prince-Bythewood. You may know her from any one of her wonderful films – Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, and Beyond the Lights. She’s on the show to discuss Tony Scott’s Man on Fire. During the discussion Gina reveals that she has a “No Asshole” policy for working with people on set. She even details how she goes about determining an individual’s “asshole status” ahead of time. Gina talks about the importance of casting and how that is 70% of directing. She discusses her working relationship with her longtime editor Terilyn A. Shropshire, and how it is so unique and special for there to be a black female director and editor team like that. Lastly, she discusses the importance of Patty Jenkins’ success with Wonder Woman, and how that opened up the doors for her to make her new action/fantasy film The Old Guard.
You can watch The Old Guard on Netflix on July 10th.
If you haven’t seen Man on Fire…get on it!
AND, if you want to check out April’s Staff Pick – watch Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency
With April Wolfe and Gina Prince-Bythewood
For years in entertainment, Blackness was an afterthought and actors had to make do with stylists who were ill-equipped to style, let alone maintain the health of their hair. Enter 3rd-generation hairstylist and all-around badass businesswoman, Kim Kimble (@kimkimblehaircare). She’s the epitome of an entrepreneur who saw a need and became the answer. We chatted at the Essence & New Voices Entrepreneurship Summit in Atlanta, and it was such an insightful conversation. Her years of experience equipped her to take it a step further and create haircare products that spoke to the health of all Black hair and not just for celebrities. It’s refreshing to see businesses and brands succeed because they serve a need just like Kim Kimble Haircare. Use #UnBossedPodcast to let us know what you think of the episode!
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The movie Brown Sugar is, at its heart, a tribute to hip-hop — complete with a soundtrack featuring artists like Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Mary J. Blige. It follows Dre and Sidney, childhood friends whose love of hip-hop is what connects them throughout their life. This coming-of-age story celebrates how love and music feed one another — an idea that spoke to Nick George. From the first time he picked up the DVD at Walmart as a college student to his life now as a spoken-word poet and community leader, Brown Sugar has accompanied him as a grown-up in life, in art, and in love.
George is an author, poet, and the founder of The Listening, Inc — a community organization that connects the performing arts to healing, mentoring, and social impact. Nick is also an adjunct professor at Central Virginia Community College. You can hear more of his wonderful storytelling wisdom in his TEDx talk “Revenge of the Snap.”
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