.zoramakes on writing and starring in 'Premature'
At the beginning of Premature, 17-year-old aspiring poet Ayanna assumes she's going to spend the summer months before college running around town with her friends during the day and cooped up at home with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend at night. But when Isaiah, an aspiring musician and a new face in the Harlem neighborhood Ayanna has called home for years, mysteriously shows up and takes a clear interest in her, Ayanna can't help but reconsider these plans.
Zora Howard: Rashaad and I met each other many, many years ago. We were both working in the theater scene in Harlem. He ended up going to NYU grad school for filmmaking and writing the Premature short, and because we had that relationship, he cast me as the lead. So about three years ago, while I was in grad school in California, he called me up and said,"I think now's the time." I didn't think it was the best time. I was a little busy.
There was a lot of challenging of each other. Because of our [individual] perceptions of who these characters were, it took a while for them to align. We really felt we had to both know each character in an intimate way. Eventually, Rashaad could start a scene, and I could finish it. Or I would write an entire scene, and Rashaad could come in and change a thing here or work on the dialogue there and it still felt true and right.
ZH: Well, I also consume a lot of film, and it does something to you to sit in the audience and see, more often than not, that the representations of people that look like you are overwhelmingly about their pain and suffering and struggle. Those things are true, to an extent, to the life we experience in this country, and it's important that we represent them. But it's not the most present truth that I feel as a creator.
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