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I did an old-school profile of Malala Yousafzai. We ordered room service, went to a ballgame, watched a concert, gabbed on the phone. Gift link in thread
Reggie Ugwu
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Reggie Ugwu
@uugwuu
culture reporter @nytimes. writing a book about the Black filmmaker in America for @bloomsburypub. @WhitingFdn nonfiction grant ‘23. this is a microblog.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2009
- Ryan Coogler shares his original plot for the Black Panther sequel, beat by beat. nytimes.com/2022/12/23/art…
- Shocked. Chadwick was a gentleman and a movie star. Radiated intelligence and resolve. Treated a stranger like a friend. A major, incalculable loss.
- I wrote the Times obituary for Chadwick Boseman.
- Last year, a source described a mystery that stuck with me: Many black filmmakers suffered from a “sophomore curse.” Unraveling it became a minor obsession, in which I’m so proud that the Times has majorly invested. Today, 6 filmmakers tell their stories:
- The first time I interviewed SZA was in 2013. She didn't have a manager then, or a deal, or an apartment. When I caught up with her again last month, she was the Grammys' most-nominated woman. Here she is on what that means and how she found her purpose.
- Me and @kylebuchanan did some digging into the Criterion Collection. Out of more than 1,000 movies released over two decades, just 4 African-American directors are included. Only 2 are alive. Why?
- My first proper pop music profile in the Times. It’s of Camila Cabello, who had a hard time last year, became her own boss, and made one of the biggest songs in the world.
- i went long on what daniel kaluuya does for your movie
- Hello. Would you like to meet Chris Evans’s new mustache? The man soon to be formerly known as Captain America (and his hardy face curtain) is an unironic tap dancer, a normal-sized human IRL and a Rebecca Solnit fanboy. My latest for the Times: nytimes.com/2018/03/22/the…
- I have a new profile up of Chadwick Boseman: Man of intergalactic gravitas (you’ll want to hear his James Brown story), consummate little brother and, yes, former hip-hopera scribe.
- Michael Schultz is unique in Hollywood. At 83, and still directing TV, the man behind “Cooley High,” “Car Wash” and “Krush Groove” is likely the longest-working Black director in history. We had a series of talks about his 50 years in the business.
- Replying to @uugwuuI also asked him and co-screenwriter Joe Robert Cole about incorporating Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character and their responsibility to the broader MCU.
- i spent some time thinking about and talking to Lupita Nyong'o. discussed: the brilliance of "Regulate," creating her terrifying "Us" character, and giving blackness a chance to be banal
