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together on some other projects. Octavia and I
were developing a television project together. So
I had just met her and sort of fell in love with
her, as everybody does, because she’s so incredible.
I said to Brian, her agent, ‘Do you think
she would like to read our script?’ And Brian
was like, ‘Send me the script and I’ll see.’
“Brian read it in a day and said, ‘I’m going
to send this to her tonight.’ That was a Friday.
Sunday night I get an email that’s like full of
exclamation points from Octavia and I said, ‘I
think this is a good sign everybody!’ And then
Octavia and I had literally a fi ve-minute conversation
in which she said, ‘I know this woman,’
and when Octavia Spencer says that to you,
you’re done. So then I had to ask some bullshit
further questions, pretending that I knew what
I was doing laughs. Amazing!
“And Naomi was somebody I had in mind just
from a writing standpoint, because I’ve been
in love with her since ‘Mulholland Drive’ — her
performance in that movie is just so fucking
brilliant. So we sent her the script and fortunately
she said yes. Then Tim came along, and
then the real trick was trying to fi nd someone
who could play Luce.
“Kelvin Harrison, Jr., had done a few movies
and gotten a bit of acclaim for a small movie
that Trey Edward Schults had done, but this is
his fi rst kind of real lead, and he had to go toe
to toe with Octavia, Naomi, and Tim. He was
terrifi ed, but he did this incredible audition. JC
saw the tape of it and I had breakfast with him
at La Brea Bakery. JC says, ‘That’s where Julius
springs all his traps laughs — but I fell
into Kelvn’s trap, in reality. He was asking all
these questions and was very shy and very softspoken
and it seemed as if he didn’t understand
the character. But he was punking me: he got
all the information he needed and when he sent
his audition tape, it was unbelievable.”
Lee recalled, “Julius called me into his offi ce
to watch the tape. Kelvin did the scene where
he tells Naomi, ‘I only get to be either a monster
or a saint.’ The nuance with which he navigated
that tape, with him looking straight at the camera,
I mean I lost my breath. I still get chills
when I think about it because you were looking
at someone who was so gifted beyond his
years. And you’re thinking, ‘This kid is going to
be the biggest star in the… he’s so incredible!’ I
literally was looking at Julius after the tape and
said, ‘He’s gonna do our movie? He wants to be
in our movie?! Put him in the movie! What are
we gonna do?’
Every facial expression, gesture, movement,
and word of his was all processed through this
phenomenal machine he is as an actor.
“Part of the inspiration for ‘Luce’ while I
was writing it came while Obama was president
and Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote this beautiful
piece in The Atlantic in which he described the
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