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    ‘What No One Tells You’: Justin Simien Explains Why Delusion Is Key to Making It in Hollywood

    David GroveBy David GroveMay 9, 20252 Mins Read
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    ‘What No One Tells You’: Justin Simien Explains Why Delusion Is Key to Making It in Hollywood
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    Earlier than his breakthrough on the 2014 Sundance Movie Pageant with the sharp, satirical debut “Expensive White Individuals,” Simien was a social media supervisor at Sony Tv and labored within the PR departments at Focus Options and Paramount Photos. As he defined on “What No One Tells You,” the primary video franchise from IndieWire’s Way forward for Filmmaking, that point behind the scenes gave him the muse he wanted to steer his personal tasks.

    Following the success of “Expensive White Individuals” (which later grew to become a Netflix sequence), Simien’s “Unhealthy Hair,” his “Haunted Mansion” reboot for Disney, and his Unbiased Spirit Award-winning docuseries “Hollywood Black” additional expanded his attain. However in his view, none of this work would’ve been doable with out first making a viable delusion for him to chase.

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    ‘Delusion Goes a Actually Lengthy Approach’

    After making an attempt and initially failing to get “Expensive White Individuals” made as a function movie, a part of what pushed Simien to maintain going was — as he places it — a delusional sense of function. He seen his artistry as filling a niche nobody else might.

    “I attempted so many issues to interrupt into Hollywood primarily based on what individuals have been saying was trending or what audiences have been on the lookout for,” mentioned Simien. “However I don’t know should you’ve observed, I’m a Black particular person, I’m additionally homosexual. And yeah, once I was trying across the panorama of what counted as Black movie in 2013, there was little or no that I used to be seeing that I felt compelled to personally make.”

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    As soon as he realized this, and the significance “Expensive White Individuals” may need to others like him, Simien began to tune out the standard recommendation for breaking in and targeted on getting his movie made any manner he might. Moderately than ask for permission, Simien selected to be “delusional sufficient to inform individuals — demand — that there be an viewers for this type of factor.”

    Watch Simien’s whole “What No One Tells You” episode under.

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