Lesson: Share ya shit gals and guys!Ī post shared by debra cartwright on at 8:24am PDT With a few tweaks, we made Starr and the cover for “The Hate U Give.” And with a few more tweaks, she's now a real person in a real fox studios movie coming out this October. Somehow, it made its way to the now best-selling author Angie Thomas who wanted to use it as her book cover. You guys lovingly picked it up and shared. And without thinking much else, I posted it on here. Because I couldn't join, I sketched an illustration on photoshop (swipe).
So in April 2015 I was sitting at my desk in Times Square while a Freddie Gray protest went on outside. “I think it needs to be put out in the forefront because it’s been so glossed over, because it’s so taboo to speak about.” “I do feel like it’s a conversation that needs to be had so I don’t regret anything that I’ve said,” Cartwright continued, referring to the Vulture interview. That’s a systematic problem not necessarily this movie.” “Across Hollywood, in general, there’s a lightening of our stories for mass consumption. This time it is the book’s illustrator Debra Cartwright - who created the eye-catching cover that is now being used as part of the film’s promotion - that is speaking up about colorism in Hollywood.Ĭartwright said in an interview with Vulturethis week that she was disappointed the film did not cast a darker skinned character in the lead role of Starr although the book, and subsequently the cover, describe a very brown skinned protagonist.īut clarifying to ESSENCE, the illustrator said the issue is not specific to the film. The film adaption of Angie Thomas’ bestselling young adult novel The Hate U Give is ramping up for its release this fall, and the colorism controversy surrounding Amandla Stenberg’s casting in the lead role is back in the headlines.
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