If you are wanting to go
to the movies tonight,
we have a suggestion for you.
1001 follows the unapologetic fe
spirited mother who kidnaps her six year
old son from the foster care sy.
Holding on to their secret and each other,
they set out to reclaim their sense of
home in a rapidly changing New York City.
We talked to Tiana Taylor,
who plays the mother Inez,
and the movie's director AV Rockwell,
about the message behind
this emotional story. We're
going to go to Harlem where I grew up at.
The city had him.
He's not supposed to be with me.
Can't you get locked up?
A lot of you keep it to yoursel.
Where's my dad at? He's gone.
But you wouldn't like them anyw.
I got somebody else in mind.
Terry, I want you to meet lucky.
Lucky's going to be moving in with us.
How long?
A B tiana. I watched this
movie and at the end,
I just. Tiana wanted to
give you a really big hug.
You and Terry. I mean,
all the fields of this movie.
You're fabulous in it.
Tiana, what was this whole joury
like for you playing Inez?
It was beautiful. It was emotio.
It was therapeutic.
You know, anez. Anez was a lot.
Anez was, was very heavy.
And I'm very grateful for anez.
I was able to outpour a lot of
anything that I had in me emotionally.
You know spiritually I was ableo
pour it all into anez and it and
it was a process and me and AV,
we found all of anez's layers ad
and in colored all of her layer.
So it was a it was a beautiful
process for anez.
You poured a lot into her
that is for sure AV. This
also exposes a lot of the childe
issues going on in New York Cit.
You posted really early on a
comment from the New York Timesn
article called suffer the child.
Why was it so important for you to follow
this storyline and be able to tell this
story about children in New York City?
Yeah, I mean, I think it's so
remarkable that this was happeng
at the beginning of Giuliani's ,
because obviously we do see how
the leadership of New York City
impacts the characters in the m.
But you have two characters whoh
come out of the foster care sys,
I, NES and Terry.
And we see that they are despere
to find a sense of home,
desperate to find a sense of stability
and to rebuild the bonds of fam.
And we see the power of all thee
things and what it the impact
it has on their life to have it.
So to see that this is something
that the citizens of New York
needed with them as an example,
yet we see what what the leaderp
chooses to put their focus on instead.
I think it just really gives
an example of what happens when
a city priority prioritizes.
Commerce over community and over its people,
you really see the impact of th.
And yeah,
the the foster care system went in 94,
in 93 like just the early 90s period.
Like it was in a desperate stat,
like, like it was, you know,
there was no questions that what happens
in the movie could have played .
So.
So yeah,
it's just,
it's just as a reminder that
we have to watch what we're
prioritizing as we're shaping ad
building and supporting our cit.
You're so good at weaving this
fictional story and with the real life
stuff that was happening in Newk
City at the time. And this movi,
ladies is getting such incredib.
I mean, the grand jury prize at Sundance,
I'm seeing, you know,
articles about awards season, all this stuff.
But honestly, having it out there now,
what has this been like for you?
Oh, my God, it's been amazing.
Yeah. Magical. Yeah, for sure. .
Yeah, I'm, I'm. I'm proud of us
and the young men that played
Terry and the movie. I mean,
just everybody was really fanta.
I think the whole cast,
I'm really proud of them.
I think they all did excellent work. So
I can't wait to see what this
means for all of their careers s
well. Oh, absolutely incredible.
Tianna. I also saw her.
You posted doors are opening in abundance.
The weight wasn't punishment.
It was preparation. Congratulats
that you're here and all
this is happening now.
So much 1001 premieres in theaters today.
It's really good. It's really g.
Yeah, I loved it. It was
great to talk to them as well.