Bravo shares her love for Gunn’s radically brilliant and largely overlooked book, Rhinestone Sharecropping
“Stressful comedy is my sweet spot,” says. Her newest film,, is a case in point: based on a viral, 148-tweet thread, it details the true story of an impulsive road trip from Detroit to Florida taken by a Hooters waitress, an exotic dancer, her boyfriend and her pimp – a journey that veers spectacularly sideways.
is based on Gunn’s experiences as a Black director in Hollywood and it’s really funny – it’s a tragicomedy, both humorous and incredibly distressing. The book was published in 1981 and wasn’t available anywhere – in the end, I had to borrow this friend’s very delicate first edition. I kid you not, I held on to the last 40 pages for a full year because I didn’t want it to be over.
“Another thing that resonated with me was a meeting in the book where you notice that the reason a white executive invites Gunn’s character in has less to do with what he offers as an individual as it has to do with him being Black. In my own experience, I would sometimes wonder about that. I don’t want to be there to check certain boxes, I want to be there for my brain.
that I love. Someone had told me to watch this movie, they said it would be seminal for me. I finally found it on DVD and he is fantastic – you get a sense of who he was in his body and how he moved. After that I sought out a movie directed by Gunn, [the 1973 avant-garde horror]– again, it’s very hard to find. It’s a movie that might play at a festival, that exists in this underground world of hard-to-access Black art films.
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