What story does Junebug tell?
It’s a story about this Black girl who has now grown into a woman. However, she’s still dealing with and trying to find peace in the moments when she was a little girl. I think that is true for all of us. We grow up, we start booking, we’re cute, and living our lives. A lot of the stuff you went through as a kid is lingering inside of you. It is something we need to go back to and do that self work. The film is for Black girls and I really loved directing it. Junebug was a very organic process.
What’s important when you’re establishing your brand as a director, producer and actress?
I had an understanding about myself that I was not the one who wanted to do one thing. I was trying to be an actress, but there was always something in me that was like, I don’t know. You have to show up to the audition room, do your best work, and then hope that that resonates with the story that that director is trying to tell. Something about that just didn’t really feel like my personality. How does Winter do it? Really early on, I started branding myself as this multi-hyphenate. I can do a little bit of everything.
