Actor Donald Glover and two of his Atlanta writers have opened up about experiencing racial harassment on the primary day the crew was in London final yr to movie the third season.
According to Deadline, throughout a press convention on the Television Critics Association, co-writers Stefani Robinson and Stephen Glover (Donald’s brother) stated after the incident it took them a while to comprehend that they had been being focused.
“It was the primary night time there. This group of individuals walks up. And perhaps certainly one of them type of notices Donald or acknowledges him. And she stops and so they begin asking in the event that they know anyplace round right here to get one thing to drink. I feel we had been speaking to them for a second. It’s this lady and two or three different guys,” Stephen stated.
He added that one of many males instructed them they might break into the bar as a result of “you guys all carry hammers,” as in weapons.
“Mind you, all of the writers on Atlanta are Black. So, he’s making a reference that we all have hammers, and we can just break into this place, which we kind of ignored,” Stephen said.
Robinson said that it took the Atlanta team a while to realise what the man was referring to with the word “hammer.” But she stated the incident continued to escalate.
“It was so insulting, however not insulting on the similar time as a result of it took us 5 minutes to completely perceive. He obtained to a degree of like if the insinuation was misplaced on us, he obtained particular and he was like, ‘You guys are Black, you have gone to jail and also you do issues like that.’ Like he stored doubling down on it,” she added.
The episode obtained over shortly after, however quickly one other synthetic a racially-charged remark because the group was speaking with a lady.
“She’s speaking to us. And then, after a minute, the man simply runs again down the road and grabs her and throws her over his shoulder, and he is like, ‘Run. They are going to rape you, like, rape you. The lady was actually, like, ‘I’m sorry,’ as she’s being taken away. So, it was fairly dangerous,” Stephen stated.
“We are simply standing there, like, ‘What simply occurred?'” Donald added.
The third season of Atlanta will premiere on March 24.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
