In her new film, Antebellum, Janelle Monae plays a writer from the 21st century who through supernatural occurrences, gets transported back to a time when she is enslaved.
Recently, during an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Roundtable, along with Jennifer Aniston, Zendaya, Rose Byrne, and Helena Bonham, Monae shared how triggering this experience was for her and what she did to get through it.
This is a project that is so of the times, and it was not going to be a yes for me because I knew the responsibility and the weight of it and I knew what this character was going to have to go through physically and emotionally.”
Antebellum, written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, was set to debut in April but has been pushed back until August due to COVID-19.
