Mehn, my heart goes out to Gina. After pouring your heart and soul into a project for over 2years and according to the author’s own words, trying your best to honor the material and involving the author to the point of even a cameo. On top of shouldering so much responsibility and expectations as the Director, she has to deal with the same author disparaging the work that has been done. Let’s call a spade a spade, what the author is doing right now is some BS. You got some of the biggest and brightest black talent from around the world on your adaptation, a big studio backing it with a decent budget and marketing, what you do is respect everyone’s work and you suck it up girl. When you’re working with studios, you don’t typically get everything exactly how you want or imagined and often there’s conflict during the creative process. It happens. Decenter yourself a little and think about what’s at stake for everyone who worked on this and even the broader AA creative community. You act like a grown up and work towards a resolution. If it cannot be resolved, speak to your lawyers. This obsession with people bringing personal/work conflict to the internet is so manipulative, it’s exhausting.