In 1992 the presidential race came down to three main candidates: the Republican incumbent, President George H.W. Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton, and Independent Ross Perot. But they weren’t the only …
, co-written by Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney . The work premiered in 2019 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.
“They weren’t around when we were in the streets with ACT UP and Queer Nation. And they certainly weren’t around for the old disco days,” Smith tells Deadline. “They have no idea what it was like.”Smith kicked off his campaign on his 35th birthday, the minimum age for the presidency, per Article II of the Constitution. America in 1992 was approaching the height of the AIDS epidemic; the disease had devastated the gay community and fomented increasing homophobia. The L.A.
“That’s really what I was trying to nurture and honor in the edit, was the substance of that campaign,” she says. “Because I think it would be really easy to make a gimmicky film that is just about the drag and the performance, without really acknowledging that Terence is a very intelligent, political person. And that also deserves to be honored.”is available to Academy Doc Branch voters through the Oscar screening portal. But the public can see it too—through the L.A. Times.
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