When John David Washington, the star of features like Tenet, Monsters and Men, and BlacKkKlansman logs onto our Zoom call from Los Angeles, I’m first struck by his t-shirt.
He’s wearing one of those commemorative Do The Right Thing tees from Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule brand/production house.
That same week I’d started a personal reappraisal of Lee’s work thanks to some new criterion releases in the UK and had the Blu-ray disk for Jungle Fever next to me.
When Washington catches a glance he begins to wax lyrical about multiple scenes and small details in the film. “There’s that one scene where she leaves the dad’s house and the camera tracks her and there’s that one song.
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