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23 WINTER 2022 TM: Was the Academy Awards ceremony as glamorous and exciting as it looks on TV? Keith: It was too much stress. I had a strong inclination that we were not going to win, because if you follow it, you know which movie is getting the most buzz. Kenny: I thought we were going to win. And then they brought out one award. I was like, "We have four writers. Maybe we're just going to share one." Keith: It was also in Los Angeles, near skid row. We're driving to the Oscars, and there's homeless people everywhere. And I was like, "This juxtaposition is unsettling." Kenny: And we made a movie about class. It just felt very uncomfortable. TM: Judas was a long time coming, but it seemed to hit audiences at a meaningful moment for racial injustice. Was that intentional? Kenny: The struggle for liberation for African Americans, it's an ever- present topic because even to this day we are sometimes treated as second- class citizens. Keith: The movie-making process is so nebulous, you don't know when "Seeing how big they made it post-college I thought, 'I can be the Congresswoman I want to be.'" — Emani Wilson '23 INSPIRED ME. Keith (left) and Kenny Lucas meet up with good friend, Roy Dean Johnson '18, on campus in October.

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