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‘The Woman King’ Cinematographer Polly Morgan On Capturing Natural “Beauty And Vulnerability”

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Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s goal for The Woman King was to create a sprawling epic based on a group of all-female warriors in Africa.

She tasked cinematographer Polly Morgan with capturing the beauty of the landscape and leaning into the colors of the environment, which could be a challenge for scenes taking place at night.

The Woman King tells the story of the all-female Agojie warriors in the African Kingdom of Dahomey. Filming in Africa presented a challenge for the production, but the location allowed Morgan to highlight the colors and tones of the period. DEADLINE: What were the early conversations with Prince-Bythewood about what she wanted for the cinematography? POLLY MORGAN: I think Gina wanted to lean into the genre of historical epics and give the movie a lot of scope and really capture the beauty of the landscape and lean into the colors of the environment.

We wanted to have really beautiful, natural, saturated color, highlighting the reds of the earth and the greens of the forest and jungles and capture the beautiful light and lean into flares and back light.

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