Tamara Lawrance Talks Finding Humanity Amid the Trauma of Slavery in ‘The Long Song’
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Tamara Lawrance starred in and was first promoting “The Long Song,” the Black Lives Matter movement and organization had already been in existence for half a decade. But now the limited series in which she plays a slave in 19th Century colonial Jamaica is debuting on PBS as a part of its “Masterpiece” slate, just months after the movement made global headlines amid the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others.“We are very clearly living in the ramifications of the psychosis of enslaving a body of people and on some level psychological warfare on a body of people and on some level a genocide as well.