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Queen & Slimkicks off with a Tinder date gone horribly wrong.
Along the way hes stopped for a minor traffic violation by a white cop.
From there, things escalate quickly.
Shook to the point of speechlessness, the man doesnt know what to do.
We gotta go, she says.
And the sequence ends with the duo leaving the scene of the crime to embark on a cross-country odyssey.
Its the black Bonnie and Clyde an uncle character played by Bokeem Woodbine says of them.
Matsoukas calls Waithe my work soul sister.
Not wanting our relationship to get in the way, I said, Send me the script.
If I love the words, if Im moved by passion, Ill do it, Matsoukas said.
I couldnt put the script down when I read it.
And I knew this had to be my first foray into a narrative space.
They become a potent symbol of trauma and terror for people across the country.
We created this film to honor those who have lost their lives because of police brutality.
And were trying to bring that conversation to the table, said Matsoukas.
But the main theme is love.
The backdrop is our racial climate because that makes the story contemporary.
The main theme is black love.
But its actually too bad that we havent seen too many black love stories especially between two dark-skinned actors.
That was our main concern: to show black peoplenotas victims, she said.
Maybe it was accidental in this case.
