The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Dear White People's Tricky Party-Planning

'Dear White People' Director Opens Up On The Film's Most Difficult Scene

The blackface party scene was really tough to write. It's a multi-protagonist story, and there are so many ways to do that. One way is to sort of let every character have their own movie, and as the story progresses, we bounce around between them — but because of story economics and the economics of getting the movie made under 107 pages, I opted for the Do the Right Thing approach, where after each major act break in the movie, we get a different protagonist.

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