Over the past five years Lynn Shelton has established herself as a distinctive director of offbeat indie dramedies, with her two latest features, Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister, offering both quirky comedy and soul-searching drama. Breaking out of Formula Both of those films were pared-down affairs built around three primary characters. For her latest feature, […]

We have all these individuals, like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, who were in powerful positions preceding President Obama. I don’t think Obama would be president without the movement of those others and people understanding, and accepting, that there were African Americans in positions of power. These individuals shifted the public opinion, even if it was just subconsciously.

The story was important to me because I’d never seen a film that chronicled the civil rights movement, from the beginning into the Obama administration, through the eyes of a father and son.

Partnering these two performers was an exciting prospect for Kormákur, who initially suggested to the team that Washington’s Bobby would be the perfect foil for Wahlberg’s Stig.