It isn’t often you hear the creator of a television show discuss how they initially didn’t want to take on a project. But that’s how “Blindspotting” co-creator and executive producer Daveed Diggs tells the story. For Diggs and fellow creator Rafael Casal, they didn’t necessarily want to create a moment-by-moment adaptation of their 2018 movie for television.
Instead, they decided to transition the show to focus on the character of Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones), who was a supporting character in the movie. The Starz show follows Ashley as she navigates raising her son after her partner of 12 years, Miles (Casal) is incarcerated for drugs.
With Cephas Jones taking center stage it was an opportunity to explore the world of being a single mother, as well as show the relationship between Ashley and Miles. “In order to root for Ashley, and want to understand what it is she...
Instead, they decided to transition the show to focus on the character of Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones), who was a supporting character in the movie. The Starz show follows Ashley as she navigates raising her son after her partner of 12 years, Miles (Casal) is incarcerated for drugs.
With Cephas Jones taking center stage it was an opportunity to explore the world of being a single mother, as well as show the relationship between Ashley and Miles. “In order to root for Ashley, and want to understand what it is she...
- 6/15/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
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