Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making of “Soul Food”
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Veronica Wells
The Story
Twentieth Century Fox, originally had reservations about enlisting Tillman as a director, being that he was a newbie in the industry. But after watching some of his earlier works they had confidence he could direct the film properly. It wasn’t just Tillman’s directorial skills that made the movie the hit that it was, it was the fact that the script drew from Tillman’s own story, growing up in a matriarchal family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In ’97, he told the Chicago Tribune that he was always surrounded by women, “I used to get so upset with my father,” Tillman says with a laugh. “I’d ask him, `Why do I have to be around all these women all the time? But in time, I learned that was an advantage.”
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