WATCH: Kerry Washington And Ebony Obsidian's Vision For 'Six Triple Eight'

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Tyler Perry’s groundbreaking film honors the unsung legacy of the all-Black female battalion in World War II, highlighting how Black women have long redefined excellence and innovation in America.

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00:00And it brings me to the next question

00:02of the director's vision of the film.

00:04And how did that enhance your approach

00:06to your character in the story?

00:08Just overall the vision

00:10and then how you all saw the character.

00:12Like, was there correlation there?

00:15I think Tyler just had so much admiration

00:18and respect for these women.

00:19And he created, like you said,

00:21a space where he supported us

00:23in order to be able to support them.

00:25You could tell the amount of nuance

00:27and detail that he had to the visuals,

00:30to the uniforms, and to the spaces that were created,

00:33to the streets that they marched on,

00:34all of these things that really have created

00:38the world that they lived in.

00:39I don't think that was overlooked, you know?

00:44Yeah, definitely, definitely.

00:46And the modern parallels, do you see parallels?

00:49And this is part of a movie question,

00:51but then also just a real life question.

00:53Do you see parallels between the challenges

00:56that the women faced in World War II, the 6888,

01:00and whether there's any correlations or struggles

01:02to what we experience today in 2024,

01:05and I guess now 2025?

01:08Something that Tyler talks about

01:10is how these women were facing racism

01:15and misogyny, grueling working conditions,

01:18and they did not have laws to protect them.

01:21This is before black women really had the right to vote.

01:26It was at a time when there was not legal structure

01:30to protect them in the way that we have now.

01:33I mean, I would say a lot of our rights are under attack

01:36as well as women, but back then,

01:38they had such few ways to protect themselves.

01:43So there are parallels, but I think it's humbling

01:47and important to remember that what we're dealing with today

01:50pales in comparison to the challenges

01:52that they were up against.

01:54I think what we do today is protect each other

01:57the way that Jim, who was protecting the battalion,

02:00taught them how to protect themselves.

02:02That's what we do today as black women.

02:04So I think that's a huge similarity,

02:06even though it's not the same time period,

02:08it's the same level of security that we have

02:11in the system of how we live in 2024, 2025.

02:15It's funny, though, because when people see the film,

02:18you see some of the ways that the white soldiers

02:20interact with these women,

02:21and we talk a lot about microaggressions at work,

02:24but these are just aggressions.

02:26There's nothing micro about them.

02:29There didn't have to be.

02:31So their bond was so strong to get them through,

02:35and I think we do see that today still.

02:38Yeah, definitely.

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