Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 'The Old Guard' is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she’s always been uncompromising. BilgeEbiri reports
From left, KiKi Layne, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Charlize Theron. Photo: Aimee Spinks/NETFLIX About halfway through The Old Guard, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s upcoming film about a group of immortal warriors, something happens that I’m pretty sure has never happened before in a big-budget superhero comic-book movie: A man declares his love for another man. And it’s not just a corporate-approved, Disney-esque bit of tokenism, either. The men in question are Yusuf, a.k.a Joe , and Nicolo, a.k.
The Old Guard is only her fifth feature in 20 years, a period during which she has worked in TV, developed a number of projects that never came to fruition, and struggled to tell the stories she’s wanted to tell, often with Black women at their centers. When I ask her to describe what she’s like as a director, she holds her hand up flat and draws a steady line with it in the air. That sentiment is shared by many of her collaborators.
She also found salvation in sports, television, and movies. She and her siblings — one brother, also adopted, and two sisters — had all started sports early. “There were so few girls, we always had to play with boys. We would get kicked on the field by little boys who didn’t want us.” She credits her parents for telling her never to leave the field. In high school, Prince-Bythewood lettered in eight different sports, though she was particularly drawn to basketball and track.
Prince-Bythewood continued getting TV-writing gigs and was working on Felicity when she got the chance to direct her first feature, Love & Basketball. The film went through the Sundance Labs but was initially rejected by nearly every company in town, until it came to the attention of a production exec with Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule.
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