premieres on STARZ on Sunday, May 16. Here, creator Leigh Davenport shares the inspiration behind .When I was nine years old, my parents took my brothers and me on a vacation to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
On one long, sunny day at the beach, my older brother and I made friends with two white kids, spending the day splashing in the water and making sandcastles.
As the sun began to set and our time together came to a close, one of the kids looked at us and said, “You look like Vanessa, and he looks like Theo.” My brother and I exchanged glances, not sure what to say, so we said nothing and continued to play until our parents dragged us out of the water.See, I was more than a bit perturbed about the whole thing.
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