‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Writer Responds to John Boyega’s ‘Trash’ Comment Over Spike Lee Series — Exclusive - IndieWire

‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Writer Responds to John Boyega’s ‘Trash’ Comment Over Spike Lee Series — Exclusive IndieWire

Editor’s note: Last week, John Boyega and others expressed outrage over an exchange from the fifth episode of Season 2 in Spike Lee’s Netflix series, “She’s Gotta Have It.” The scene finds Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) and her black British lover Olu (Michael Luwoye) debating the impact of black British actors in Hollywood. The conversation eventually expands to the British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and other major historical issues. Many viewers have taken particular issue with Nola describing black British actors as “cheap” and essentially ignorant of their own history, s...