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Today, Disney+ debuted the trailer and\u00a0 key\u00a0art\u00a0for its\u00a0new film,\u00a0Safety<\/em>, inspired by the empowering true story of former Clemson University football safety\u00a0Ray\u00a0McElrathbey, a young man facing a series of challenging circumstances, whose dedication and persistence help him to triumph over repeated adversities. Aided by\u00a0his teammates and the Clemson community, he succeeds on the field while simultaneously\u00a0raising and caring for his 11-year-old brother\u00a0Fahmarr.\u00a0All American<\/em>‘s Jay Reeves will star as Ray with newcomer Thaddeus J. Mixson as Fahmarr. Corinne Foxx (47 Meter Down: Uncaged<\/em>), Matthew Glave, Hunter Sansone, Amanda Warren, Miles Burris, Isaac Bell, Elijah Bell and James Badge Dale also star in the film.\u00a0 Safety<\/em> will debut exclusively on Disney+ on Friday, December 11, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spoke with the films director, Academy Award nominee Reginald Hudlin, on what it took to complete a project that’s equal parts sports with important messages on family and responsibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What drew you into the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read a great script. I remember I was about 20 pages in and I got up and started pacing around the house and my wife said \u201cWhat’s wrong?!\u201d. I’m like “This is good!”. I read another 40 pages and I start pacing around again, and she goes \u201cWhat’s wrong now?!\u201d. I said \u201cI think I’m going to work!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So were you familiar with the story before you read the script?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No I was not, but, when I read it I really related to it. You know just the idea of\u00a0 a young man in a situation that is impossible, but failure is not an option. He had to make a way out of no way and I just know so many people who have been in those situations and they’re heroes… you know they don’t necessarily get noticed, but they make the impossible happen. I feel that’s what Ray McElrathbay did. He made the impossible happen and I\u2019m happy to celebrate him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know you\u2019ve worked with your brother, Warrington, closely over your career and I know having a sibling is a very formative experience – do you think the relationship with your brother helped in telling McElrathbay\u2019s story?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve actually got two older brothers. They were both so important in shaping who I was as the youngest…and those sacrifices that an eldest have to make – you know because you get deputized – it\u2019s not necessarily fair to the eldest. They\u2019re told by your parents – \u201ctake care of your brother, take care of your sister, or else\u201d, you hear that over and over again and you take that seriously and that’s a very relatable situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clemson and sports is synonymous, so how were you able to honor both the sports fans and McElrathbay’s story?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took the sports policy very seriously and we wanted to make sure that the football was shot authentically and that we delivered it with a level of style. When you watch the NFL on TV [the games are] beautifully shot. So we knew we had to go beyond what they do when you\u2019re watching a game, but you have to deliver the power and energy of a real game…We had a lot of real players cast as our team who all really knew what they were doing. There were no Hollywood cornball non-athletes in our cast, we had real athletes. We drilled everybody for weeks on our football plays and then our camera operators drilled with them. We had 7 1\/2 minutes to shoot our big football sequence – it was an amazing achievement both from the athletic perspective and from being able to shoot that much footage, that many angles, and that much detail, that quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director Reginald Hudlin on set working with the cast of SAFETY, exclusively on Disney+.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What was your goal with the storytelling of Safety<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it’s a movie about brotherhood, [the] two brothers, and the brotherhood of the team, and ultimately the entire community. I just wanted to convey the reality of what everyone did. I wanted to really make people feel how tough Ray\u2019s situation was, his brother\u2019s situation, his entire family. To understand that everyone was taking a risk but they were taking a risk for the greater good.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve given a lot to the culture. Was it your intention to focus on Black stories when you started out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n[Laughing] Yes. I just feel like, the power of movies is incredible on a global basis. And if we can show the full range of our humanity, that’s a big deal. If we can show the full range of our artistry, thats a big deal. And thats what I’ve tried to do in my body of work, whether it’s a comedy, whether its an animated movie, whether it’s a documentary. Here\u2019s all the different sides of who we are as a people, and you don’t have to be Black to relate to it, but everything you see on screen is going to be authentically Black, and in watching it you will realize me being true to my culture is no different than Akira Kurosawa directing movies in Japan and being true to his culture and here I am a kid in East St. Louis relating to this Japanese filmmaker. When you get specific you plug into a Universal [thread].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You mentioned a full range of artistry, which I think you encompass wonderfully. It\u2019s wild looking at your resume and seeing how many different mediums you’ve worked in – how do you do that? A lot of artists want to do it all – and you have -how?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to have a lot of opportunities. I\u2019ve tried to prepare myself for opportunities so that when those come, you\u2019re ready. Also, there\u2019s a cost to that, because people go – well who are you? Are you a producer? Are you a director? Do you write comic books? Do you do comedies? Do you do dramas? People don’t necessarily perceive all those things or connect all those things together…It\u2019s tricky because it\u2019s easier to be that person who does thing X, right? You do the same thing over and over again and there’s nothing wrong with that if that’s what you want to do, but I never wanted to do that. If I see something and it looks like fun, I want to go do it. When I started…there was so few black filmmakers in Hollywood – it all seemed impossible. So I didn’t see any reason to except any limits because whatever I did was against the odds and once you start doing things…once you start breaking those barriers, then you go – why should I respect any barrier?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You wrote for the Black Panther comic. Did you think Black Panther would go as far as it did?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did think it was going to go as far as it did. I was always very confident that Black Panther was going to be the equivalent of Captain America. What Captain America represents for America, Black Panther represents for Africa. But I was wrong! Black Panther is bigger, right? It\u2019s the first superhero movie to make over a billion dollars. I was always confident that it was a big universal idea, because it was [a] black utopia and the world wants to see that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Who is your favorite comic book character?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s hard to say because it\u2019s so many, but I have to say the set of superheroes I\u2019m developing now with Milestone Media, which is a black comic book company from the 90\u2019s that we\u2019re now reviving. I\u2019m having the most fun working on these books. I can\u2019t wait for the public to receive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you having fun?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\u2019m not having fun I don\u2019t see any point of doing it. If I\u2019m having fun usually things work 110%. If I\u2019m not having fun, then I\u2019m working and… I try to avoid work [laughs]. I just try to have fun for a living, and usually that fun expresses itself in the end product and when audiences see it they connect, they feel that positivity in the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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