THE WOMAN KING Q&A with Viola Davis, John Boyega, Gina Prince-Bythewood | TIFF 2022
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The team behind THE WOMAN KING in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Featuring a thrilling performance from Oscar winner Viola Davis, this epic tale brings to life the true story of the Agojie, the all-female military regiment charged with protecting the embattled African Kingdom of Dahomey.
The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit tiff.net.
Featuring thrilling performances from Oscar winner Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu (The Underground Railroad), and John Boyega, this epic tale of struggle and liberation brings to life the galvanizing true story of the Agojie, the all-female military regiment charged with protecting the embattled West African Kingdom of Dahomey from adversarial neighbours, European colonizers, and the horrors of the slave trade. The year is 1823. Orphaned at birth and raised by an abusive guardian who seeks only to marry her off for money, young Nawi (Mbedu) petitions for entry into the Agojie, led by the single-minded Nanisca (Davis). To defend their people against the oppressive and heavily armed Oyo Empire, the Agojie run candidates through an arduous training program. Nawi proves herself an outstanding, ferocious soldier, though she questions the Agojie rules, which state that no one in their ranks shall marry or have children. As the Agojie prepare for the fight of their lives against both the Oyo and the Portuguese slave traders with whom they are in league, long-buried secrets come to light, revealing harrowing stories of personal sacrifice that will only strengthen the bonds between these unstoppable warrior women. Building on a career of rousing dramas that includes Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees (TIFF ’08), Beyond the Lights (TIFF ’14), and The Old Guard, filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood delivers a riveting story of heroism, friendship, and the power of women. As with many of cinema’s great epics, she dramatizes a turning point in world history through spectacular battle scenes and moving character work. This is a rare film that combines vast scale and intimate emotion. At the centre of it all, Davis is absolutely mesmerizing as the Agojie’s strategist warrior.
Gina Prince-Bythewood is from Los Angeles. She studied film at UCLA, wrote for television, and directed the shorts Progress (97), Damn Whitey (97), and Bowl of Pork (97) before writing and directing the features Love & Basketball (00), The Secret Life of Bees (08), and Beyond the Lights (14), the latter two of which premiered at TIFF, and directing The Old Guard (20). The Woman King (22) is her latest film.
This is a cast of crazy talent. Crazy talent!
I agree
They were all Oscar worthy!
Oh my loving God. I don't know "Braveheart", but I'll never NOT KNOW "The Woman King" This movie is awesome. So layered. Viola and Cast ... you did the damn thing!!!
The Love And Unity is Mesmerizing and Reminds Me of the way Black People in Families used to be... So Grateful to you all for making this phenomenal movie.❤
Please guys make a Part 2 this movie should become a series this was amazing you can not give such an amazing movie and that be it!!!!!!!! Are you MADDDDD the world needs to see more of this.
Wonderful Movie I saw at TIFF....I will be seeing The Woman King in the theater also.👏🏾😇👏🏾💯💯💯 🥰🎬🌺🌺🎥🇨🇦
So much elegance and grace!
Thuso Mbedu 🥳🥳
Yes🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🥳
Viola Davis is just class personified. All of these women are exceptionally talented and beautiful. I could not keep my eyes off of Viola, even amongst all of this talent and beautiful. She reminds me of a female Sidney Poitier. They both, Viola and Sidney, exude this regal glow that can't be quantified or copied. I am grateful and honored that I got to see them both, even in their prime, during my lifetime.
Voila is such an AMAZING Speaker & Actress 🥂 THE WOMAN KING 👑 Cast & Director 💕
I just watched this movie and to the people who are just haters 🙄 why don't you first go and watch it before just hating. I'm sure a large majority of yall haven't watched it because if u did u would know that the production never claimed to be COMPLETELY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. it's a story meant to humanise these amazing women in history because everything thus far has been the opposite.
Viola always gives me chills that get me off my butt 💯💯💯💯🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Viola dishonored her ancestors by making a movie about a group of women who participated in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
The Dahomey women were notorious slaves raiders.
@@lloydinfamous5032 I believe the film addresses many aspects of the Dahomey warriors. It's not a documentary.
@@michboa437 well it says its inspired by true events, true events of deceiving. The French were outnumbered and these so-called warriors were no match to the French soldiers....hahaha
@@lloydinfamous5032 no one truly knows the extent of who was and who was not involved in the African slave trade. What we do know is that once the slaves arrived in America their lives were horrible. If the white, Christian, American were "truly" Christian, why didn't they just release the slaves once they got to America?
thank you Viola
Yes Yes 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 God is in the mist stay strong You have blessed the world with Gods Truth. God is with you.
Amazing movie,cast,acting!Viola's the best actor period!
THIS CAST DID A GREAT JOB. HANDS DOWN
Amazing cast! Outstanding played! Can only speak in high notes for the acting.
Can’t wait to see this film ……. It’s going to be dope I wish them success on this project 🎥🙏🏿😎🎥🥤🥳🍿🤞With it coming out on the world stage just have an open mind to it regardless of the negative depictions, let’s just chill out on the day relax an watch ! Don’t get too much embroiled into all that negative foolishness people get into
And for you haters Jog On !!
Being pro African slavery in 2022 is a bold take and not one that should be celebrated or supported so go do some basic research before handing your hard earned money over to these hypocritical hucksters.
Beautiful cast 😍
Maybe this film was not for that young woman Lupita... Only those who starred in this exceptional movie, were probably meant to be in it.❤💎💪
Love You All! Thank You For This Incredible Movie! ❤❤❤💪💪💪😊😊😊
I can define myself ❤️
God I love black people! They so hype on stage!
As a Dark African▪︎ I APPROVE #Viola 😍🔥🖤
#keep_in_mind the true stories of black lives in the Black Continent is hidden from y'all
Black people need to know the good & evil we did in the Black Continent
Thank you. 🧡
The guy who acted the role of a General, Jimmy Odukoya wasnt mentioned!!
I fell in love with the cast ❤️
For this to work on youtube the moderator needs to repeat the question.
One crazy cast 😂😂😂
There is not enough support or light shone on this movie. The disrespect to these black women and what they were able to create was amazing and legendary! I hope they one day get the credit that they deserve as artists, not just black but they are great at what they do! Give them their awards and flowers while they are still here!
you've gotta mic the audience so we can hear them
Viola Davis: "Most of the story if fictionalized. It has to be... We have to entertain people. If we just told a history lesson... that would have been a documentary... If people want to learn more, they can investigate more." And, as people have investigated, we found your movie was the exact opposite of true history.
This was an amazing video 😢😢😢🎉🎉🎉
Black people stay hyped 😭💗🤣
Thuso is going to be a big start,
where's the cast from the Oyo kingdom? it's not fair not recognizing them also
Future movie about slavery: The southern slave owners were really just trying to help black people, by teaching them about how raise crops and how to work. Whipping them was just trying to teach discipline. If we include minor details like the brutality and stuff, it might be less entertaining. We're not making a documentary! (Viola Davis comment)
Quite! The rationalisation and dismissal of the slavery facts stuns me. It’s like saying slavery majorly matters, but not when we have a minor agenda to push
This comment was ridiculous she still shines and you are a nobody 🎉
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WARRIOR WOMEN WITH LUPITA Nyong'o
Everybody PLEASE go to youtube and see her documentary...she exposes The Truth.
Yeah while simultaneously acting in a movie where the Agojie warriors clearly inspired the Dora Milaje.
@@ampmri2434
Thank you .plus she played an enslaved women who got brutally beat on the mouvie 12 years a slave I think Lupita was just full shit .
I side eye every black person involved and white person too but being involved as a black person, just unimaginable. There are empowering black stories to tell this tribe ain't one of them get real.
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS?!!?
Well, one thing we know now: reparations start with Benin!
reparations begin with colonizers. you came to lands uninvited, dirty, and corrupt and now you want transfer the Atlantic Slave Trade all to Africans you treated as cargo. Find a clue.
Circulate petition's to have the stolen Diamonds and Artifact's removed from the British museum. Spread the word on social media. Don't forget to sign up for Reparations. Boycott Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 as well. They treat women horribly and have committed MURDER'S. They were involved in the 9-11 terror attacks as well.
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Hollywood celebrating the largest slaving tribe in Africa. You couldn't make it up.
They acturally fought the French who were protecting the villages and came to abolish slavery.
O yes and those stunning pro-slavery amazones were vanquished within half a day by the vastly outnumbered French.
There are so many films and shows about black people inflicting pain on other black people. The Wire, American Gangster, City of God to name a few. Shaka Zulu slaughtered hundreds in neighboring tribes, including his own. Should we not tell his story? Our humanity and history is messy. I understand the want for positive representation because we have gone without it for so long. However I think it’s both freeing and profound to see our humanity explored in all its forms. I don’t think we should shy away from telling a story just because the subject is complicated.
you must be white and trolling
@@katarinasabrina problem is it says inspired by true events on the trailer.
@@kevinsavasci7311 it is inspired by true events. There is a kingdom of Dahomey, they did kidnap and enslave people and there were Agojie warriors who fought in battles. No period film in the history of cinema has ever been completely historically accurate, nor is that the goal. The goal is to tell a story. Even documentaries have a perspective. In Saving Private Ryan, the army unit meant to find Ryan (Tom Hanks and his crew) were completely fictitious as well as the journey they went on to find him. Roots was a mixture of fact and fiction. The message/story of Roots was more impactful than maintaining accuracy. The imagery was powerful. It sparked a dialogue; an interest for people to look into their own past and gave people a sense of pride. I fully understand the expectation for filmmakers to handle period films (especially ones dealing with sensitive topics) with care and maintain a level of authenticity. In my opinion, the filmmakers accomplished this while being able to tell their own story.
I do think it is important that the diaspora come together in real life to have discussions about our complicated history. While art can spark these discussions, I don’t think it is the job of artists to literally interpret reality.
@@katarinasabrina Hello, I have no problem to made history inspired film, actually i would like to see it more, but if you pick and choose only parts which you like form history, say only A and forget to say B, or worst made it seen by our nowayday eyes/morals/standards without contemplate historical reality, then you just make it worst. This is why, because film tend to stay in overall memory kinda deeper, and ppl as lazy as can ppl be just dont tend to check the real history, but take the movies one as facts, and then you have start of distorting, twisting the history.
I think that will be wrong thing to do with history. PS to your comparsion movies, yeah SPR film was about fictional unit, but all around was as truth to history as possible, they even made show americans soldiers do war crimes for example, but this film is about woman military unit, whos work for hellish regime, whos kiddnaped and enslave other ppl in region (and those woman warriors participated on it). And from what i see in trailers and bits, i kinda dont see the level of history there... they just had part of history, choose only what they like, twisted it in nowayday modern black woman narrative and forget about the ugly parts. To end my point, its okey make historical films, but we need to stop twisting and rewrite history whenever its not usefull in our nowadays morals.... and btw if you look in history you can find whole kind things, you dont need to makeshift it.
hahaha! this African story is not it mah dude, when you're glorifying an African Tribe who were Slavers.
Blah blah
@@jamesomoz529 :D I see a short sentence has to much words for you to comprehend, hahaha! Murica's inner school system at work, hahaha!
Every history has it's dark sides let's not ruin this beautiful film because you want it to be accurate. No film depicting historical events can be 100% accurate
you are really a sad individual. This is not a documentary it is a movie loosely based on historical events!! The movie is entertainment at its best. However, it does address how the Dahomey kingdom became wealthy slave trading. I LOVED what Viola and the cast were able to achieve here. I will definitely buy it once it leaves the theater. I saw the movie twice!!
@@jamesomoz529 so you are pro slavery, you are the problem.
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WARRIOR WOMEN WITH LUPITA Nyong'o
Everybody PLEASE go to youtube and see her documentary...she exposes The Truth.
WARRIOR WOMEN WITH LUPITA Nyong'o
Everybody PLEASE go to youtube and see her documentary...she exposes The Truth.