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It may not hit now, but somewhere a Mindy Kaling, a chubby girl with glasses and brown skin will see it and it will mean something. “But the chance to put a black girl in flight? I will risk it. “I’ll always direct things but who knows if that price point ever comes again. It is what it is.”Īnd it’s the film she wanted to make, for the 12-year-old her, and for someone like Kaling, who says that she always loved sci-fi but that it never loved her back. Some of them, it’s not (going to be) for them. DuVernay says of the critics that, “Some of them will see what we tried to do. Before a screening she asked the audience to try to watch it through the eyes of a child - an unusual request for something from an already very kid-friendly studio like Disney which makes films for the younger set that nonetheless appeal to a wide swath of ages.Ĭritics reviews are under embargo until Wednesday, and social media reactions so far have been unusually sparse for a film this big. “Wrinkle,” however, is film that is first and foremost for children ages 8 to 12, DuVernay says. Initial tracking suggests that “A Wrinkle in Time” may open in the mid-$30 million range, which might not even be enough to unseat Disney’s “Black Panther” (which DuVernay passed on directing) from the No. I look at him and I’m like, ‘Wow, that’s fantastic.’ But that wouldn’t have been Patty Jenkins and it won’t be me.”
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The next week he’s the director of another thing.
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“He can make something that doesn’t work. It’s something DuVernay thinks about often. It’s not unreasonable, you know? Tomorrow they can say, ‘No we don’t want you to make movies anymore.’”Īnd indeed there is still that idea that female filmmakers are not given second chances, even when they succeed. I want to do as much as I can do when I can. “Even though people tell me it’s ok, I think it’s all going to stop tomorrow. There are beautiful black women directors but there are seven-year, six-year gaps between them,” she says. There is no precedent for a black woman making films consistently. “I just feel like I have a short window in this industry. She’s afraid if she slows down, it might all go away. Witherspoon says she has never met a director who spends so much time talking about others: Acknowledging everyone’s contributions in a cast and crew of hundreds, and then spending weekends talking about other people’s work too, from Patty Jenkins to Ryan Coogler.ĭuVernay always has something in the works. So, let’s go back and put the eyes on the dress.” You’ve got to do it right now and it’s got to be the best it can be. Where are those?’ And he was like, ‘Well this looks good too.’ And I’m like, ‘Well let’s go take a look at that anyway.”Īsking for what she needs, and wants, is something DuVernay has learned as she’s gotten older. “But I looked and I said, ‘Well on the sketch there were little eyes. “She came out and everyone applauded for the dress and it was extraordinary,” DuVernay explains. “I was like, ‘I think it’s fine without the eyes? I think it’s ok!’ Winfrey recalled.ĭuVernay laughed that Winfrey recounted that moment. Once she even sent costume designer Paco Delgado back to hand paint hundreds of eyes on one of Winfrey’s costumes because that’s what she had seen in the concept drawing. Winfrey, Witherspoon and Kaling, all hardworking multi-hyphenates themselves, marveled at DuVernay’s tireless work ethic and attention to detail. “I think it’s incredible that Disney made the decision to hire Ava on this and gave her the creative control to cast whoever she wanted,” says Reese Witherspoon, who co-stars in the film as one of the mystical “Mrs.” alongside Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling.
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And when they said I could make her a girl of color, it just grabbed my whole heart.”ĭuVernay set off to do the impossible - make a big budget, kids-targeted sci-fi blockbuster with an unknown 13-year-old black actress (Storm Reid, now 14) as the lead. “I’d done ‘Selma’ and ‘The 13th.’ How did they even think that would work? But they did. “I was shocked that they called me,” says DuVernay. The story about an awkward 13-year-old girl, Meg Murry, who travels through time and space, was a notoriously unwieldy one that carried the dreaded “un-filmable” stigma. The Walt Disney Co acquired the rights to Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal-winning 1962 novel in 2010, and it went through various writers and budget points. That film, “A Wrinkle in Time,” with its $103 million production budget, opens nationwide Friday. Now, at 45, she has an Oscar-nomination (for the documentary “The 13th”), a historic Golden Globe nomination (for “Selma” she was the first black female director to get that recognition) and has also become the first woman of color to get over $100 million to make a live-action movie.