With TheInspection, Gabrielle Union is going to war for her career and her family. “I will fight so my child does not have the same fate, and so that my child doesn't lose hope.'
. “And so even something like a scene involving [French’s] birth certificate, when we shot it didn't necessarily resonate in the same way,” she continues. “I knew it was obviously important in the scene, but it's taken on a different significance as my own child fights to change her birth certificate to reflect her gender and her name and everything just feels different.
I realized the thing we have in common is this need to be considered “good.” And the need to try to assimilate to a point where you've assimilated your way out of common sense and decency. And for Inez, she was willing to barter with her child because she, in her branch of organized religion that she subscribed to, being gay or queer made you “bad.” And if you raised a queer person, you're bad by extension. And she wanted no part of that and put her own child out at 15, 16 years old.
What was it like unveiling these realizations through therapy while simultaneously portraying heavy, real-world scenarios during the filming process? This kind of project is really moving mountains, and people are like, “Well, it's not curing cancer.” But for a lot of families, people who've taken their parents to see this movie already, I’ve heard from parents, “I did not want to see myself in your character, and I did. And I will fix this. I have to fix this.”
Not as different, because I tend to do projects that have smaller budgets, very little time. So, my commitment to efficiency and just making sure that we got the shots we needed, stayed on task, and paid attention to the sun. All of that stuff. Throughout the day, I'm whipping off a hat here, adding a hat here, whipping off a hat here, adding a hat there.