Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “Love and Basketball”
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Veronica Wells
Prince-Bythewood didn’t know if white people would get it
Before Love and Basketball hit major theatres across the nation, it was first screened at Sundance…in Utah…for a predominately white audience. Immediately after the film was over, Prince-Bythewood couldn’t tell whether the audience liked it or not. In 2000, she told the L.A. Times “I was nervous because for other screenings we always had like a 99% black audience. So here’s 1,300 people in Utah. At the end of the movie it was so quiet. I thought, wow, they didn’t get it. Then people started applauding and it got bigger. I was so happy for Sanaa and her standing ovation because I knew how hard she had worked for this role.”
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