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WATCH: Kerry Washington And Ebony Obsidian's Vision For 'Six Triple Eight'
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12/31/2024
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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And it brings me to the next question
00:02
of the director's vision of the film.
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And how did that enhance your approach
00:06
to your character in the story?
00:08
Just overall the vision
00:10
and then how you all saw the character.
00:12
Like, was there correlation there?
00:15
I think Tyler just had so much admiration
00:18
and respect for these women.
00:19
And he created, like you said,
00:21
a space where he supported us
00:23
in order to be able to support them.
00:25
You could tell the amount of nuance
00:27
and detail that he had to the visuals,
00:30
to the uniforms, and to the spaces that were created,
00:33
to the streets that they marched on,
00:34
all of these things that really have created
00:38
the world that they lived in.
00:39
I don't think that was overlooked, you know?
00:44
Yeah, definitely, definitely.
00:46
And the modern parallels, do you see parallels?
00:49
And this is part of a movie question,
00:51
but then also just a real life question.
00:53
Do you see parallels between the challenges
00:56
that the women faced in World War II, the 6888,
01:00
and whether there's any correlations or struggles
01:02
to what we experience today in 2024,
01:05
and I guess now 2025?
01:08
Something that Tyler talks about
01:10
is how these women were facing racism
01:15
and misogyny, grueling working conditions,
01:18
and they did not have laws to protect them.
01:21
This is before black women really had the right to vote.
01:26
It was at a time when there was not legal structure
01:30
to protect them in the way that we have now.
01:33
I mean, I would say a lot of our rights are under attack
01:36
as well as women, but back then,
01:38
they had such few ways to protect themselves.
01:43
So there are parallels, but I think it's humbling
01:47
and important to remember that what we're dealing with today
01:50
pales in comparison to the challenges
01:52
that they were up against.
01:54
I think what we do today is protect each other
01:57
the way that Jim, who was protecting the battalion,
02:00
taught them how to protect themselves.
02:02
That's what we do today as black women.
02:04
So I think that's a huge similarity,
02:06
even though it's not the same time period,
02:08
it's the same level of security that we have
02:11
in the system of how we live in 2024, 2025.
02:15
It's funny, though, because when people see the film,
02:18
you see some of the ways that the white soldiers
02:20
interact with these women,
02:21
and we talk a lot about microaggressions at work,
02:24
but these are just aggressions.
02:26
There's nothing micro about them.
02:29
There didn't have to be.
02:31
So their bond was so strong to get them through,
02:35
and I think we do see that today still.
02:38
Yeah, definitely.
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