Lee Daniels: ‘Studios will give you about $10 to make a black movie’ – The Guardian

Im sure the publicity people are spinning out of control because Im having this conversation with you. But life is too short for me not to keep it real, the director-producer Lee Daniels tells me, and it is neither the first nor the last time during our interview that he says words to that effect. (And he is right: the publicity people dont like our conversation, but well get to that later.) We are talking on Zoom, me in my home in London, him in his decidedly more impressive-looking home in Los…

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