In “The Six Triple Eight,” Kerry Washington stars and government produces a movie that tells slightly identified story about Black girls throughout World Conflict II—and per the veteran actress it’s a movie that’s positive to make Black girls in every single place really feel liked and appreciated
Washington stated as a lot when she sat down for a current interview with The Root, the place she spoke alongside costar Ebony Obsidian in regards to the forthcoming, Tyler Perry-directed movie. In it, Washington stars as Charity Adams—captain of the 6888th Central Postal Listing Battalion—whereas Obsidian stars as recruit Lena Derriecott. Their characters had been impressed by two of the real-life girls of the identical title who had been part of the 855 girls who would make historical past as the primary and solely Girls’s Military Corps unit of shade to be stationed in Europe throughout World Conflict II in 1945.
As their tales unfold, we come to be taught of the unattainable process the ladies got: finding out a backlog of 17 million items of mail to and from troopers and getting all of it shipped out in six months. On prime of among the letters being mislabeled with incorrect or incomplete addresses, the ladies needed to deal with this gargantuan duty all whereas enduring racism, harassment, unsafe and unfair work situations and extra. But and nonetheless, as Black girls do even to today, they had been capable of emerge victorious of their mission regardless of the percentages stacked towards them.
“I feel the truth that these 855 girls did this unbelievable factor and so many people simply didn’t know the story is a testomony to how so many individuals go unrecognized that we make individuals invisible by pushing them to the margins. And I feel a number of what we’re attempting to do with this movie is say ‘we see you,’” Washington instructed The Root who additionally described the movie as a “love letter to Black girls.” “We see you, we love you, we’re grateful, we worth you. The truth that on the finish of the movie you see each single title of each single member of this battalion means we honor you. Each single one in every of you issues.”
Washington went on to say that she thinks that message may also translate to individuals aside from Black girls and expressed hope that anyone who’s ever felt disrespected and pushed to margins will discover the fortitude to maintain shifting ahead.
“I feel it’s so highly effective that we’re lifting black girls up on this second, however we’re additionally lifting them up as examples to say to anyone: ‘have a look at these Black girls and know that irrespective of who you might be, in case you really feel underestimated, doubted, pushed to the margins, disrespected, in case you really feel doubt inside your self due to how the world treats—you recognize that none of that defines you.’ You possibly can meet the mission of your life and be the most effective model of your self as a result of these girls did it. And so you are able to do it,” she concluded.
“The Six Triple Eight” is in choose theaters now and hits Netflix on Dec. 20.