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Barry Jenkins. Credit Scott McIntyre for The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n

from the daily<\/a> — a haunting interview between moonlight <\/em>director and academy-award winner barry jenkins and ny times <\/em>staff writer nikole hannah-jones<\/a> about their troubled childhoods:<\/p>\n

hannah-jones:<\/strong> all right…so when you say you’re not…bitter…is that true?
\njenkins:<\/strong> it is true.
\nhannah-jones:<\/strong> you’re really–
\njenkins:<\/strong> i’m not. not at all. to be bitter is to say that i was owed<\/em> a better childhood,\u00a0 i was owed<\/em> a better circumstance. and that’s just not true.
\nhannah-jones:<\/strong> no?
\njenkins:<\/strong> no. i mean, i’m here.<\/strong> you know? i mean, right?
\nhannah-jones:<\/strong> you are<\/em> here.
\njenkins:<\/strong> and also, too, i understand what the world was like when i was born. i don’t blame any<\/em> of these men or women who became addicted to this drug [crack]. it was not the “perfect” storm…it was….an undeniable storm of how all these things happened.
\nhannah-jones:<\/strong> so…i definitely think of myself as a broken person and i wonder if you think of yourself that way, too?
\njenkins:<\/strong> HEEEEEEEY! … yah, yah, for sure. i mean, clearly. clearly<\/strong>. you can’t go through — i’ll acknowledge that. you can’t go through those things and emerge fully intact, you know?
\nhannah-jones:<\/strong> how are you broken?
\njenkins:<\/strong> you know, i often say that, in the film, the main character is this guy that’s wandering around feeling like he’s unworthy of love, you know? and i think i went through that process, very very legitimately feeling like i was unworthy of love. and you have to always — when you’ve ever felt that way and really believed it — you have to constantly do this work to remind yourself that that is not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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from the daily — a haunting interview between moonlight director and academy-award winner barry jenkins and ny times staff writer nikole hannah-jones about their troubled childhoods: hannah-jones: all right…so when you say you’re not…bitter…is that true? jenkins: it is true. hannah-jones: you’re really– jenkins: i’m not. not at all. to be bitter is to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12561,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions\/12561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}