Ava DuVernay Unpacks ‘Origin’: ‘You’ll Sit Through Three Hours’ of Oppenheimer’s Process. Will You Sit Through Two Hours of Isabel Wilkerson’s?
variety.comAngelique Jackson After directing “Origin” — the feature adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” — Academy Award-nominee Ava DuVernay is feeling incredibly content.
In fact, when she appears over Zoom from her office at the ARRAY creative campus in L.A. in late August, just a couple days ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, there’s a glow about her.
And it doesn’t seem to be coming from a ring light. Asked what she’ll take from the process of making “Origin” into her next project, DuVernay replies: “How did this change me?
So much so that if I never made another film, the experience of making this one would be enough.” The filmmaker turned 51 on August 24, the same day I previewed the film with a small group of critics and journalists.
Read more on variety.com