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‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ Director Dawn Porter on Her Time With the Late Congressman and Honoring His Legacy

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Ellise Shafer editorIn making “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” director Dawn Porter naturally strove to highlight the congressman’s countless accomplishments, but also wanted to show a different side to him — the reserved joyousness that few people got to see.“I think people were always surprised that the Congressman was very quiet in person,” Porter tells Variety. “He was very funny and charming, but not a person who was seeking the limelight all the time.

I wanted to fill in that other piece of his personality.”Beyond Lewis’ 33 years as a U.S. representative and almost six decades as a civil rights leader — he organized the 1963 March on Washington as well as the 1965 Selma march, and continued advocating for all forms of equality in Congress.

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