{"id":96706,"date":"2019-06-11T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=96706"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:18:43","slug":"the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2019\/the-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-flip has-box has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"960\" height=\"1264\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/Russell-Hornsby.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/Russell-Hornsby.png 960w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/Russell-Hornsby-483x636.png 483w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/Russell-Hornsby-778x1024.png 778w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/Russell-Hornsby-768x1011.png 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/Russell-Hornsby-759x1000.png 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Photo by Benjo Arwas<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Theatre<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Real Thing\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Russell Hornsby (\u201996) brings complexity and grace to his role in <em>The Hate U Give<\/em><\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">June 11, 2019<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/authors\/joel-brown\/\">Joel Brown<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph magazine-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-dropcap-dimensional has-dropcap has-dropcap-color-quaternary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>Maverick Carter stops his SUV in front of his house and growls at his three children to \u201cget out of the car and line up on the grass.\u201d A confrontation with the police has ruined their family dinner out. His teenage daughter tearily blames herself for causing it by speaking up about the police shooting of a friend. In the 2018 film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5580266\/\"><em>The Hate U Give<\/em><\/a>, Maverick is an ex-con, ex-gangbanger, ex-drug slinger, a man with volatile emotions who seems ready to explode\u2014but what he says to his children is unexpected: \u201cPoint 7 of the Black Panther 10-Point program! Stop crying and say it!\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The children gather themselves to repeat: \u201cWe want an immediate end to police brutality by any means necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maverick leans in to tell them that some things are worth speaking up for: \u201cDon\u2019t ever let nobody make you be quiet!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In most American movies, Maverick would have been absent or in jail or on the streets, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0395203\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Russell Hornsby<\/a>, who plays him in <em>The Hate U Give.<\/em> Maverick might come around to bicker with his wife, but he wouldn\u2019t be much of a parent, a stereotype reflecting society\u2019s distorted perception of black culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the film, based on Angie Thomas\u2019 2017 <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling young-adult novel by the same name, Maverick is a store owner who has long steered clear of his old gang ties, a hard-edged but fully present family man determined to keep his kids safe in an America that seems hostile to their very survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re saying now that we need to see a well-rounded image of who we are,\u201d says Hornsby (\u201996). \u201cThe truth of the matter is, Maverick does exist. There are men who are felons and ex-cons who have come out and made good on their lives. And they do have families and they do have loved ones and they are present. And <em>that\u2019s<\/em> what we needed to show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hate U Give | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MM8OkVT0hw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>The 2018 film <em>The Hate U Give<\/em> is based on Angie Thomas\u2019 2017 <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling young-adult novel by the same name. 20th Century Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Changing the conversation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For many years, a black ex-con with gang ties in an American movie was usually a powder keg certain to explode in violence; films depicting the civil rights struggle often had passive black characters menaced\u2014and saved\u2014by white characters. It was hard for African Americans to find their lives depicted authentically, in all their complexity, on-screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A change began, Hornsby says, with Spike Lee\u2019s early films and a personal favorite, 1995\u2019s <em>Devil in a Blue Dress<\/em>, directed by Carl Franklin, starring Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. \u201cThat is one of the most authentically black films that you\u2019ll ever see, in my opinion. We\u2019re just living. We\u2019re not struggling, and trying to overcome, and all this kind of sh-t. We\u2019re just living. And you see the black world they live in, and how they talk, in their own world, where the cloud of The Man isn\u2019t over them. That\u2019s us, and it\u2019s so beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That kind of climate change may be accelerating for black filmmakers in the era of Black Lives Matter and a president seen as openly racist by many. Hornsby points to <em>Moonlight<\/em> (\u201cbeautiful and deeply honest\u201d) and <em>Get Out<\/em> as recent films that treated black characters and black concerns authentically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many said the same of <em>The Hate U Give.<\/em> The movie, which was directed by George Tillman Jr. and written by the late Audrey Wells, garnered critical acclaim and honors, including the audience award at the 2018 American Film Festival and a Top 10 ranking from the African-American Film Critics Association. Hornsby\u2019s performance earned him a best supporting actor award from that group, and enough award-season buzz that the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/11\/movies\/russell-hornsby-the-hate-u-give.html\"><em> New York Times<\/em><\/a> did an interview, although an Oscar nomination didn\u2019t materialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amandla Stenberg plays Maverick\u2019s teenage daughter, Starr, who attends an upscale, mostly white prep school and is the only witness when a white cop shoots an unarmed young black man. Her emerging activism throws her family into a maelstrom of controversy, pulling in the police, media, protestors, and the local drug lord. But instead of acting like the stereotypical hothead, Maverick stands by his daughter, even stays with her the night after the shooting, holding a bucket when she vomits, comforting her as best he can. He knows too well the aftermath of violence, but he is also a loving dad, and tells her the world needs her: \u201cShine your light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/01\/Russell-Hornsby-the-hate-u-give.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96707\" width=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/01\/Russell-Hornsby-the-hate-u-give.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/01\/Russell-Hornsby-the-hate-u-give-450x300.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Maverick Carter (played by Russell Hornsby) explains to his young children what to do if they are ever stopped by the police. Erika Doss\/Twentieth Century Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Drawing from life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To tap into Maverick\u2019s complexity, Hornsby drew on his own upbringing. He grew up with a single mother in Oakland, Calif., \u201cnot always the safest and best place to live,\u201d even though they weren\u2019t in the toughest part of the city. When he wasn\u2019t in school, he spent a lot of time at the Dimond Recreation Center, where a crew of older men on staff watched over the kids summer after summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey were good guys, but gruff, they talked to you in a certain way that commanded respect,\u201d he says. \u201cThey weren\u2019t doing anything illegal, but they talked to the around-the-way cats, the drug dealers, whatever. But there were also moments when they had a different kind of compassion, when a little kid fell and scraped his knee, and they\u2019d hold him and be like, \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it young man, we\u2019ll clean you up and you\u2019ll be back playing in no time.\u2019 And then later, you\u2019re older, and you hear them talking about how their wife\u2019s having another baby and how are they going to pay the rent or feed this child. It humanized them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote magazine-block-bu-pullquote alignwide is-style-modern has-image has-image-focus-center-middle has-quaternary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"338\" height=\"351\" class=\"bu-blocks-background has-background-opacity has-background-opacity-80 wp-image-9773\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/07\/Russell-Hornsby-film.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">In images, it\u2019s important to strike racism a metaphorical blow, and i think that\u2019s what maverick does. that\u2019s what you do when you\u2019re able to color a character in with dimension and nuance and grace notes.<\/div><footer class=\"caption\"><br\/>Russell Hornsby<\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999, when he was in his mid-twenties, Hornsby played Youngblood in a production of August Wilson (Hon.\u201996)\u2019s <em>Jitney<\/em>, one of a handful of the playwright\u2019s works he has performed in. The other actors were mostly older black men with families and money problems and complicated personal histories. He learned as much from them offstage as on, listening to them talk about their struggles and burdens, failures and successes, how they kept going. \u201cAnd I have to honor those men, because I heard their voices. Me playing Maverick, that\u2019s me saluting them and saying thank you for helping me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maverick reflects all these men, Hornsby says. \u201cThat\u2019s why the movie is so important, because the larger part of society has not seen that image of black men. In images, it\u2019s important to strike racism a metaphorical blow, and I think that\u2019s what Maverick does. That\u2019s what you do when you\u2019re able to color a character in with dimension and nuance and grace notes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>A deep dive into creating character<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When he was a younger actor trying to make his way from the stage to Hollywood, Hornsby was mostly just thinking about getting work, but when he auditioned to play stereotypical thugs, he got rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI spoke proper English,\u201d he says with mock regret, and Hollywood was hiring rappers for their real-life street cred. \u201c\u2018No, he can\u2019t be a ghetto guy, he\u2019s too clean-cut, he talks clearly, he enunciates! He\u2019s not <em>black<\/em> black, he\u2019s just black.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did get cast in 2005\u2019s <em>Get Rich or Die Tryin\u2019<\/em>, the 50 Cent movie, playing a henchman with gold teeth, but they cut a lot of his scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In retrospect, the reverse stereotyping served him well by allowing him to play other things: a hospital chief resident when he was just 26, a cop with kids. In NBC\u2019s fairy-tale-noir series <em>Grimm,<\/em> he was a tough cop helping his partner keep the peace between humanity and mythological creatures. And in February, he debuted on Fox\u2019s <em>Proven Innocent<\/em> as a lawyer who gets series star Rachelle Lefevre out of jail after she\u2019s wrongfully convicted of murder. They partner up to help others unjustly behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hornsby can play doctors, lawyers, and cops with the best of them, but Maverick was a responsibility as much as a role. Preparing to play him demanded a deep dive into the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI sequestered myself for a month because I wanted to imagine that solitude and confinement he had while he was in prison,\u201d says Hornsby, who lives near Hollywood. \u201cI asked my wife to take the kids, and she went to her mother\u2019s for a month. My day consisted of getting up early, going to the gym, coming back and making a simple breakfast, reading and writing. I immersed myself in his world, because you have to create the character from the inside out. You write out who the character is, you write out his biography, the things he thinks about. It was taking time to walk around the city by myself and find his walk, his speech patterns. These are the details you have to get into. It\u2019s about being honest and truthful about who he is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russell Hornsby: THE HATE U GIVE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GXd1bKj1MC8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hornsby talks with <em>The Movie Times<\/em> about how black men and black fatherhood are\u2014and should be\u2014portrayed on-screen. <em>The Movie Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to pull apart the threads of a performance, he says. But he offers an extraordinarily subtle example of how that preparation played out on-screen: watch Maverick walk, he says, when the family approaches the courthouse where Starr is going to testify about the police shooting. \u201cYou see the walk right there, and you see the way my hands form. They\u2019re kind of open and they\u2019re spread by my side. This openness. And the reason is, you\u2019re in prison, you\u2019re in a six-by-nine-foot cell, right? Your gait is smaller when you come out, because you\u2019re so used to being in a confined space. So what Maverick had to do was relearn how to walk, and now there\u2019s more freedom in the walk. He\u2019s more expressive than he used to be, because he\u2019s a free man. You\u2019re in prison and you lose yourself because you\u2019re confined, and you\u2019ve got to find yourself again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other roles have also required Hornsby to do the deep dive, like Lyons, the son of Denzel Washington\u2019s character in the 2016 film adaptation of Wilson\u2019s <em>Fences<\/em>, or grieving father Isaiah Butler in the well-received 2018 miniseries <em>Seven Seconds<\/em>. That preparation means that once he gets to the set he\u2019s ready to work, to \u201cdrop in\u201d to the character. \u201cYou get into the makeup trailer and then, <em>boom.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s gotten the best notices of his career in these parts. But film industry kudos aren\u2019t what motivates him. \u201cIf you are waiting for somebody else to validate you, you are going to be waiting a long time,\u201d he says. \u201cI have had an objective career in a subjective industry, you can\u2019t deny that, so just in that alone I am victorious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With <em>Proven Innocent<\/em> soon to finish shooting, he says, \u201cI get to go back and sow some more work; 2017 was planting season and \u201918 was the harvest, and now I have to go back to planting.\u201d He\u2019ll continue to look for roles that expand the way black men are defined on film, and he\u2019s optimistic, to a point, that more such roles are becoming available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">\u201cWe\u2019re no longer having our stories told or intercepted by the dominant culture,\u201d Hornsby says. 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