Watching Roots as a young boy taught him “so much about who I was and about the ugly truth of hatred, oppression and indignity.” He recounted that he grew up in a biracial homogeneous New York suburb.
Journalists and even one A+E executive ultimately overruled the hostesses and installed themselves for the event, which began with A+E Networks President of International and Digital Media Sean Cohan speaking. The evening got off to a confused start for attendees who were told they could not sit in seats marked “reserved” - which amounted to essentially two-thirds of the room. Each of the team members were passionate in their discussion of the project, which preceeded a screening of half of the third installment that focuses on Kizzy (Rose), the daughter of Kinte (now played by Malachi Kirby, but not in tonight’s episode), and her son Chicken George (a strong Rege-Jean Page) by slave owner Tom Lee (Rhys Meyers). On stage tonight in Cannes alongside a visibly moved Wolper and Burton were stars Anna Paquin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Anika Noni Rose. history, including the American Revolution and the Civil War. Starting with the capture of Kunta Kinte in his African village, Roots follows his Middle Passage to colonial America as a slave and his family’s fight for survival while witnessing and contributing to notable moments in U.S. Wolper and co-executive producer LeVar Burton, who starred in 1977 as the Gambian youth Kunta Kinte with whom the series originated, were in attendance tonight along with the new cast members who spoke passionately about the mini, whose “emotional stories and thematic elements could not be more relevant today,” Jossen noted.īased on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel, the new Roots is an eight-hour historical portrait of American slavery that recounts the journey of one family and its will to survive and ultimately carry on a legacy despite intense hardship.
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