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Claudia and Marla Maples, on the set of Black & White | Photo: Steve Azzara |
M: Working on this film must have been quite an education. C: I learnt a lot in the course of making "Black and White". I mean, I'm European so we don't have as much of a physical hip-hop culture as you do here in America, yet at the same time everybody wants to be like this. Everybody buys the CD's-- watches the videos on MTV. Everybody wants to be like the young black people in America. Very open. Very courageous. Not afraid to say what they think. As research for my role I listened to a lot of hip-hop music and hung with the Wu-Tang Clan and I learnt a lot. I learnt there are some very real racial problems still alive today but nobody wants to talk about it. There's just this uncomfortable silence. So I love that this movie is so blunt about all of that. It really captures a shift in the way young people are thinking. I mean this is how my generation thinks now . Its not like this BIG deal, this unheard of thing anymore for people from different races to become romantically involved and have children and live their lives together. It is the new culture and its not going away. M: Well congratulations. Whatever "Black and White's" box office fate, you've just done a stunning turn in the first great cult film of the Zero's. C: Thank you. Working with James was one of the most exciting and challenging experiences of my life and I'm very proud to have been a part of it. |
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