I’d say around season four, I had an experience. I’m going back to then, too, you know? Then at some point, it became normal. I know season one I was like, Damn! We’re working on a plantation! I go to work and I’m on a plantation ! We’re already there to imagine and create, so naturally my imagination is going all the ways. It’s a plantation, you know? It’s easy to forget that. Kofi Siriboe: Well, we film on location in New Orleans, but the anchor of the show is our farm, the land our father left us. How does it feel shooting on location in Louisiana? What do you think it adds to the show in terms of how you shape your characters? Josephine isn’t technically a real place, it feels like the small towns I knew growing up. My family’s from rural Louisiana - Loreauville, a very, very small town in Iberia Parish. To come on an adult show with adult themes and cultural, racial, social themes, it’s been a dream come true for me. It’s very different, you know? Disney is for kids. Before that, I was on a Disney show with Zendaya called K.C. This is one of the most incredible casts I’ve ever been a part of.
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They embraced me, and Tina cracked a few jokes with me at the beginning, and that just melted all the nerves I had away. That was my first introduction to them, and I was like, They gonna hate me! But they didn’t. Here I come in, and my very first scene was the scene where I find out what’s going on with my dad. When I got there, it was the sixth season, and they’ve been there five seasons. They’re a well-oiled machine. TT: I was really nervous because they’ve been here. You and Aunt Vi had some very tense conversations together. That dynamic - especially between you and Charlie, and you and Nova - is fascinating. Tammy, you seamlessly entered the show as Billie, Prosper’s daughter. TT: I’ve been working every one of their nerves! That’s right! TL: She’s been getting on our nerves like she’s been there for six years. Tina Lifford: But she feels like she’s been there for six years. Some of you have been on this show for six years. A lot of the flowers we see in season six were planted as seeds in season one, and we get to deal with them patiently and romantically and beautifully, as you all just saw. My favorite part about it is it’s not a one-episode special where we deal with race.
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Queen Sugar has been very responsible about the stories and characters we portray to make sure people walk away with new information about how to navigate their lives.
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Instead of picking up a book, people will watch TV. What do you think Queen Sugar adds to the television landscape six seasons in? You can watch or read their conversation below.Īngelica Jade Bastién: One thing I love about this show, which shines through in every season, is that it handles very heavy topics - police violence, domestic violence, generational trauma, the relationship Black people have to the land - in really beautiful ways. In a conversation led by our critic Angelica Jade Bastién, they discussed the show’s legacy, what it was like to film an account of 2020 in real time, and the paradox of telling Black stories in Hollywood. Ashe (Micah West) gathered at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles to screen the episode. On the eve of its sixth-season finale, just days before DuVernay confirmed that Queen Sugar’s forthcoming seventh season would be its last, cast members Kofi Siriboe (Ralph Angel Bordelon), Bianca Lawson (Darla Sutton), Tina Lifford (Violet Bordelon), Tammy Townsend (Billie), and Nicholas L. It wasn’t just the lineup of all-women directors that marked Queen Sugar as a standout, though the Ava DuVernay–created series committed to that for its entire run. Rather, the show’s resolutely deliberate pace and delicate approach to explosive story lines distinguished Queen Sugar from its network counterparts from the start - and elevate it above the streaming morass to this day. Photo: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Vultureįive years ago, a drama about a southern family premiered on OWN in quietly radical fashion.