Unless you’ve been living under a rock or doing your best to avoid Black Twitter (Black X…?), The Deliverance by Lee Daniels is the new film that everyone is talking about on social media at the moment.
In addition to a chillingly-good haunted house plot, the presence of Mo’Nique following her and Daniels’ reconciliation back in 2022 and an award-worthy lead performance by Golden Globe-winning singer/actress Andra Day, the masses have been in a chokehold over Hollywood living legend Glenn Close playing a role that no one could’ve expected: a hood white woman named Alberta.
Close, who’s just one award away from EGOT status, does an outstanding job at recreating herself into a religious cancer patient with a penchant for Black men and wigs that Tyler Perry could (and should!) take notes from; there’s no argument there. However, what has many scratching their heads is a tweet that Daniels sent out recently in promotion of the film that really rubbed our community the wrong way.
Take a look below and judge for yourselves:
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Like we stated earlier, the performance by Glenn Close isn’t what lead to the digital pitchforks. There’s even an argument that can be made about the Alberta’s out there that you’ll certainly find in the many hoods of America and beyond. What alarmed us though, in addition to many of the same people on social media who’ve made the movie go viral, is the notion of their presence being some sort of pillar to the inner city Black experience. In all actuality, you can find any race cohabitating alongside Black people on the block — the struggle isn’t only synonymous with us!
When we think of a fabric, words like “bond,” “structure” and “unity” usually come to mind; that white lady in apartment 4B struggling right next door to Aunt…
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