Exclusive: Bond producer says new film will make ‘big difference’ in throwing long-overdue light on 1955 lynching
Bond producer says new film will make ‘big difference’ in throwing long-overdue light on 1955 lynchingPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Imagesollywood has always been drawn to true stories. Yet, for almost two decades, it rejected the idea of a film about a Black mother’s fight for justice for her 14-year-old son, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
She said: “They were saying: ‘Why would you want to tell this story, it’s depressing?’ People don’t want to talk about this history … They just weren’t interested. They didn’t think it was worth making.”being choked to death in 2020, after a police officer pressed his knee into his neck for more than nine minutes – sparking protests around the world – has now made the telling of Till’s story “even more urgent”.
It portrays Emmett as a joyful kid who adored his mother, a widow, with whom he lived in Chicago. In 1955, he visited beloved family members in Mississippi, having been warned by his mother that he should “be small” in the segregated south, to avoid confrontation.Photograph: Lynsey Weatherspoon/AP Broccoli said the two men later admitted their guilt in a magazine interview, adding: “They were paid for their confession and they were not able to be retried for murder because of double jeopardy.”after a 2017 book quoted Bryant as saying she lied about Till whistling and making sexual advances toward her.
Broccoli said that racism “happens all the time”: “In order for it to stop, first of all we have to be made aware of it. This sort of history in America, as in many other places in the world, is not being taught. What’s the old saying? If you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it …
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