Welcome to the first roundtable discussion
of "Shots Fired" on Fox.
I'm Reggie Rock Bythewood.
As the co-creator of "Shots Fired,"
I would invite you to hang with us
as we have insightful conversations about a 10 hour
film.
For today and the next nine weeks,
join us immediately following the show
to hear from some amazing people connected to this project.
Kicking off the discussions, I'm proud and excited to have
co-creator Gina Prince-Bythewood,
Sanaa Lathan, and a real life template
for Ashe, Francesca Cintron.
(SINGING) Where do we go from here?
"Shots Fired" is a 10 hour film because we're
able to just, like, give all the characters an arc
and really look from various points of view.
When we were creating Ashe, we really had to find
the perfect template for her.
And why don't you just talk about how
we came across Francesca?
Yeah, absolutely.
We needed to find somebody we could
draw on to get the authenticity for this character.
And Ashe was a character we felt like we
hadn't seen on TV before.
And Reg and I both know a woman who was a lawyer for the DOJ.
And I called and said, "I need somebody to talk to,
just to get the inside view of an investigator in the DOJ."
And she said, "I know the perfect person.
I work with her and she is great.
She's a bad ass."
And so I called up Francesca.
And you and I had lunch.
And it was an incredible lunch because your life really
is a movie.
And the things that you were talking to me about
were absolutely things we wanted to put into Ashe's character.
Maybe you can just tell a little bit
about your path which, again, influenced a lot of Ashe.
Well as investigators, we are very complex.
And we're human and have to put sometimes our human side away
to be able to be a good investigator
because we can't show our biases.
And you are able to show the flawed part of us,
but also the incredible passion that
makes us good at what we do.
So I really appreciated and was really
amazed to see how you were able to intertwine the flawed
with the good investigator.
She was able to show that vulnerability.
How did it feel to work with Sanaa again after so many years
after "Love and Basketball"?
Honestly, we really did fall back in.
I greatly respect what Sanaa can do.
If you listen to the dailies, you would think,
like, what is wrong those two?
Like they're fighting like sisters.
But it's always about the work.
And that's-- it's about bringing out the best in her.
And she absolutely gave us her best.
She's such a juicy, delicious role to play.
And I feel like we're kind of like sisters now, you know.
So it was-- it was great.
And I always felt like you guys were there the whole time.
And I always just felt safe with you guys.
Being in law enforcement and seeing the things that you saw
changed your world view, which is something
also that we added to Ashe.
I wonder if you could talk a little bit
about that, whether people are born good or bad.
If you're not in law enforcement,
you live in a bubble, which isn't a bad thing.
But your bubble is very safe.
And your bubble is very fair.
But in law enforcement, you see the other side of humanity.
And it's not always good.
And they're not always kind.
And you see what they can do to each other.
And so you have another view of humanity.
She was so helpful to me, just spending time
with her, kind of shadowing her, just getting into that mindset.
Because when I look at you right now, you are so beautiful.
You're so feminine.
And yet to imagine you, you know,
undercover in Colombia or Mexico is kind of mind blowing to me.
And it actually just helped drop in the character for me.
I did a little MMA--
[laughter]
--mixed martial arts a couple months
before we started shooting.
And it was almost more for the mindset because I'm an actress.
I'm kind of, everything is all love, you know.
And Ashe is a fighter.
And when you have that mindset, every time
you're walking into a room, you're on the defensive.
That's a complete shift for me.
In law enforcement, you realize that you
have to find your timing.
Yes, I might look like this like now.
But I will let you know if you step inside too close, that I
will do what I have to do.
And that's what Ashe did.
She let people know that you stepped too close.
And that's hard for people, especially women,
because we're-- we're emotional.
You know, you just see another world.
And it's really hard to let go.
And that's why you see some cops that do get jaded.
I mean, it really gave us insight into why character Ashe
would look at the world and say, like, people are born bad,
not born good.
I think prevailing wisdom is people are inherently good.
Which I still believe by the way.
SANAA LATHAN: I believe it too.
FRANCESCA CINTRON: Yeah-- yeah.
And what if there are people who are inherently bad?
Right.
That is like-- that was a new idea.
And I think that that's definitely what Ashe believes.
People think that we're inherently
good because it makes us feel like there's
a reason for all this.
But when you do what I do, you realize
that people got it wrong.
We're-- we're born bad.
How did all your cases and being all over the place
affect your personal relationships?
The problem is is that when you're an investigator
and you're seeing and working long hours,
you're not always there when you should be.
And even when you are, like with Ashe,
this case kind of consumes you.
Consumes you, kind of like being an actor.
Yeah.
[laughter]
And it's like two worlds that you're straddling,
because the people that are important in your life,
it's hard for them to understand what it is that you do.
And you don't want to bring them in any way,
because you want to escape from that too.
That's why I usually, like Ashe does, you end up
being with somebody that's on the job
because you understand each other.
And when you're working on a case
there's so much connection and passion that's
being brought on with the case.
And you're the only ones--
you're trying to solve something.
And I guess it's like you guys doing a movie or something.
You know, you get involved in it and throw
things off of each other.
So women in law enforcement end up usually being married
to men in law enforcement.
And one of the conversations that we had,
you talked about how hard it is.
And it's something that Ashe struggles with.
She's such an alpha for herself.
And needing that control, it's hard to find
a man that can step up to it.
And that's definitely something, Sanaa, that your character--
as we see in the pilot, the way that she
treats and behaves with men.
Because when you're an investigator,
when you're a female in law enforcement,
you have to be an alpha.
You can't be this meek and, please tell me what you did.
When you walk in the room, you have to walk in the room,
them knowing that your strength--
seeing your strength.
Like Ashe did, when she walked in the room, whenever she
walked in a room, she walked in there owning the room
and looking at everybody and letting
them know that Ashe is here.
What the hell Ashe?
She's a child Harvey, trying to play house.
Kai has a mother.
Remind her of that.
This also felt like a fresh point of view,
seeing a woman fighting for the custody of her child.
Yeah.
ASHE AKINO: I don't understand.
I don't understand.
I keep making excuses for you Ashe.
I can't anymore.
I don't think that you're OK.
I don't trust you.
I would never hurt Kai.
I would never hurt her.
She's coming in, basically investigating this shooting
that a law enforcement officer is
either guilty of or not guilty.
And can you just talk a little bit
about what that feels like for somebody working with the DOJ
in terms of investigating other police officers?
You always want to go in thinking the good of your own.
I think you kind of give maybe extra credit if it's
a police officer or something.
You just-- you want to find that they did the right thing.
But you can't go into an investigation with a bias.
You have to be open to know that sometimes there's bad cops.
That's where your professionalism comes in
and that you're doing the job for the right thing, wherever
it falls.
The department is obviously corrupt.
Just because someone told her the police were involved
doesn't make it fact.
But a cop telling her to keep her mouth
shut or they'll take her kid?
We have to dig,
My grandfather is a police officer.
And he policed in the community that he lived in.
But who was also the person who taught me how to drive.
And he's also the first person that gave me the talk,
as it's been commonly called.
And so it really was from a police officer teaching me what
to do when and if a racist cop pulls you over
and how you handle that situation.
So I think in many ways we were obviously very aware
of what we saw in the news.
But it also like hit us on a personal level as well.
It is personal to us.
It's-- you know, we have two boys.
One just turned 16.
Cassius is about to start to drive.
And it's something always in our consciousness
is how to protect him.
And we just really hope this show is that it can really
spark empathy for characters that you
may not know in real life.
And that's really at the core of this
is showing the humanity of all these different people.
And when you see someone as human
and you can empathize with them, that's when change happens.
And that's really our hope for the show.
And yet I also, just knowing from shooting it,
it's going to be so fun.
It's a ride.
It's entertaining.
I think people are going to really enjoy watching it.
It was very important for us to be entertaining as well.
We're trying to live up to our creed, which
is to get your audience at the edge of the seat
and while they're leaning forward,
hit them with the truth.
Yeah.
Big shout out to Gina Prince-Bythewood, Sanaa Lathan,
and Francesca Cintron.
Get back here next week immediately following "Shots
Fired" on Fox to talk hour two.
I'm Reggie Rock Bythewood.
Later.
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