‘Roots’ Reborn: How a Slave Saga Was Remade for the Black Lives Matter Era – Hollywood Reporter

May 27, 2016,  S.M. Crew

Forty years after the original gripped half the nation (literally), a more violent and more accurate remake is here, gambling on big stars including Forest Whitaker and Anna Paquin and the unresolved emotional core of America’s toughest conversation: “He was calling me a n—er, but at the end of the scene he was in tears.”

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