RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201c[She also] had two children, who were very fair-skinned and almost white-passing, and this woman was biracial. And I was just really struck by the kind of complexities of that, like, what would make somebody feel like they had to erase their past and deny it?\u201d<\/p>
He added: \u201cI had a really interesting conversation with my mum about generational trauma \u2013 she\u2019s also biracial \u2013 and she was sort of talking to me about her experiences as a biracial woman and kind of traversing different cultures and classes and sometimes being perceived as almost white and kind of how people would treat her.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then the odd sort of slip, and then there\u2019s a microaggression or something, which actually is quite offensive, or quite shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n
The year Martello-White heard this story \u2013 which was also the year he first saw Get Out \u2013 he was doing the BFI Network program in conjunction with the London Film Festival and Black Star, and the central question he was repeatedly asked was: What should your first feature film be?<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I sort of came away from that experience being like, it had to be something really personal that sort of explored race in a really complex way but also have a genre element to it that kind of made it more universal and far-reaching,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n