Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is one of the most important movies of the year for a lot of reasons. There’s the fact that it’s a phenomenal genre-chameleon film that’s unapologetically Black ; also, that Coogler broke the minds of Hollywood bigwigs by owning the rights to his movie . Sinners is also one of the most talked-about releases in recent memory and is therefore subject to folks having opinions about what could’ve been avoided in the period-piece vampire epic. Namely, that infamous scene with Grace Chow—a moment its actor and Coogler were aware would get quite the reaction from audiences.

In a recent feature by Variety , Li Jun Li spoke about the camaraderie she felt with co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku , and Jayme Lawson. She also said Coogler engendered a workin

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