Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Brown Sugar”
The idea
Remember Mary J Blige’s song “Seven Days”? Essentially, it was about two friends who end up becoming lovers and try to figure out what they’re going to do and where they’re going to go from there. Just before he wrote the script, Elliot says that a friend of his encouraged him to write one more script.
“I believe that was God. I was listening to the radio the next day and Mary J. Blige’s song “Seven Days” was on. If you listen to that song, you realize where Brown Sugar came from. She’s singing about seven days of the week but she’s also singing about a platonic friendship with a dude but something changed. On one of those days they made love and she says ‘now what are we going to do?’ I wrote that question on a napkin and that became the end of my first act.”
