Pharrell Williams Thanks Lego For Helping Tell His “Origin Story” In ‘Piece By Piece’
deadline.comPharrell Williams is thankful someone took a risk on his brand of unconventional storytelling. At a recent screening of his new animated documentary Piece by Piece, the 13x Grammy winner expressed his gratitude to Lego‘s head of global entertainment Jill Wilfert for saying “yes” and collaborating on the film. “I don’t want to make it all heavy, but she said yes to a Black man’s story, from a marginalized community.
When I was young, that’s my origin story,” said Williams, according to The Independent. Over the past decade, the 75-year-old toy company has expanded into animated features, with The Lego Movie (2014), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).
Williams added at the screening, “Lego could have said no. I’m Black, in case you hadn’t figured that out. But they said yes.
I’m not Batman. This is not Harry Potter intellectual property. It’s just me, from Virginia. But they said yes.” Premiering Oct.
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