Regina King as Shirley Chisholm in “Shirley”
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Regina King plays Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman in the Netflix movie, fighting to bring about change. shirley.
The film tells the story of Ms. Chisholm’s pioneering 1972 U.S. presidential campaign, in which she was the first black candidate to seek a major party’s presidential nomination and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. She became the first woman to do so. Her boundary-breaking campaign was marked by the involvement of young people as she tried to win enough delegates to speak at that year’s Democratic National Convention.
The John Ridley film also stars the late Lance Reddick in his final role, as well as Lucas Hedges, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christina Jackson, Dorian Crossmond Missick, Amira Vann, and Andre Holland. , also starring Terrence Howard.
The two-minute trailer begins with Kings-Chisholm announcing she’s running for president, saying she’s paving the way for people like her to get elected.
“Are you going to be president? You’re not human,” a little boy told her during a street fair. “Maybe you should find your mother,” she replied.
She has tried to garner support for a presidential bid, at one point allying with the Black Panther Party, but has faced setbacks from those who think she can’t do it. But that doesn’t stop her.
“I’ve seen so much suffering that I don’t know how not to try,” Kings-Chisholm said while watching the film, before adding, “I’m going to hold all politicians accountable.”
She ends the trailer by saying, “The American people are watching us.”
When King’s casting was announced, the Oscar-winning actress, who is also producing the film through her Royal Tides Productions banner, announced that she and her fellow producers would be working on the Netflix project in the future. “I hope to inspire many generations.”
“Regina’s passion for bringing to life a complete and very human portrait of Shirley was evident literally from the first day we met,” writer and director Ridley also said at the time.
King is the most recent actress to play a pioneer.Uzo Aduba also played Chisholm in the Hulu movie. mrs america” for which she won an Emmy Award, and Danai Gurira will play her in another biopic. Shirley Chisholm fighting.
shirley It will be distributed on Netflix on March 22nd.
