Just in time for Black America’s favorite holiday, Nicole Beharie returns as the star of Miss Juneteenth: a Fort Worth, Texas-based drama about former pageant winner Turquoise Jones navigating her 30’s as the mom of a teenager who couldn’t care less about winning the contest.
First-time feature film writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples (Queen Sugar) reveals things about integrity, resilience, and dreams deferred that are rarely seen through the Black experience on film.
EBONY convened with Nicole Beharie about the themes of Miss Juneteenth and how they converge with the Black Lives Matter moment of today’s headlines.
And I think that’s not something that we see, especially in stories with people of color, where they can be multifaceted, where they are good people and they have flaws at the same time.
But one thing I happen to really love is that Ronnie makes some decisions and Turquoise makes some decisions, that they just can’t see eye to eye, but they want the same thing.
