Secrets Behind the Making Of Selma

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Bloody Sunday

DuVernay took great pleasure in filming scenes on the bridge still named after Confederate general and KKK leader Edmund Pettus. She told 60 Minutes’ Bob Simon, “I imagined [Pettus] turning over in his grave a little bit [and him] thinking ‘where did it all go wrong? This was not supposed to happen.’”

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