“I was writing about these issues of power - power coming from different kinds of privilege race and class,” Ng said.įor the author, the limited series is able to put those topics front and center in a way different than she had been able to articulate on the page. Still, she knew she always wanted to look at the nature of privilege. The original novel doesn’t cite Mia’s race specifically and, as Ng will tell you, she wrote Mia as a working-class white woman. The series utilizes this principle with its story of the wealthy journalist and housewife Elena Richardson (Witherspoon) and the nomadic artist Mia (Washington). When you’re dealing with a story that packs in candid discussions about race, gender, class, and society, balance becomes essential, and it can be difficult to touch on all those elements without overloading two powerhouse actresses like Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Emmy Predictions 2020: Best Limited Series
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