Barry Jenkins first heard the history of the Underground Railroad from a teacher when he was six or seven years old. Jenkins as a wide-eyed kid imagined an actual railroad, though, secret steam trains thundering under America, built by black superheroes in the dead of night. “This phrase, ‘Make America Great Again’, just kept getting repeated and repeated,” Jenkins says. And so I thought, okay, yes, [The Underground Railroad] is absolutely the right thing to do. “If I never make anything else again, I will still feel like my journey was fulfilled.”The Underground Railroad is available to watch on Amazon Prime from 14 May

Source: The Guardian May 09, 2021 09:00 UTC