Actress Lashana Lynch talks to Linsey Davis about the responsibility of portraying African history in “The Woman King” and how playing a warrior helped her find her softer side. ABC News Live Prime, Monday through Friday at 7 EST and 9 EST WATCH ABC News Livestream: https://bit.ly/3rzBHum SUBSCRIBE to ABC News: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP SEE MORE at http: //abcnews. go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #ABCNL #lashanalynch #thewomanking #africanhistory #history
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She was amazing I told every one about her in this role ❤️
The movie is historically inaccurate.
Are your ancestors dahomeys?? 🤣
She’s wonderful !!!!
I love Lashana!!! An amazing actor. What a powerful movie. Thank you for the representation, it is so needed right now. Great interview, great questions 🥰
So now we are going to separate between fairer skinned black people. Good luck with this project.
Worth fighting for slavery, is that what Viola is suggesting. So if black women are this strong, why do we see all the issues today in Africa?
I wonder how long they trained to do these stunts because they were AMAZING ❤💥🔥🔥👏🏾
this movie is fake. I would have respect the film if they also wouldn't showcase how they enslave their own people
I was so hurt when her Character died 💔
authentically? authentically fake XD
LaShauna is so beautiful ❤
Is she a lesbian?
❤❤❤
Nice. She did a phenomenal job. All of the cast did. God's Love and Blessings!
When she die in the movie,I cried.
If Marvel ever does a Storm movie or if DC does a black Wonder woman movie , Lashana gets my vote for the part.
The film was the best movie I’ve seen in years and her character was my favorite! I cried like a baby when she died.
Lashana Lynch on 'The Woman King': 'We want to tell our story authentically' – Okay when are you going to tell this story then because the film is no where near accurate. I guess you are proud of how this tribe enslaved other africans to sell to europeans for weapons so they could enslave even more! Next Hollywood film will be about Hitler saving millions of jews!!
The Dahomy tribe were monsters and kidnapped their own people during and well after the slave trade was over. Nothing about this film is good. The interviewer and this actress are totally ignorant to what the Dahomy ACTUALLY DID.
Lol YALL NOT EVEN AFRICANS 😂 WHY YOU THINK YOU GOT AMERICAN NAMES IDIOTS 😂
The HOMIE TRIBE 😂
She is stunning!!! Absolutely beautiful. And she played this part like it was her hold essence.
I loved this movie and I love her so much! She was my favorite and I def cried when she died 😫🥹♥️♥️ We need a part 2 plz ! 🤭😘💕
You were my favorite character lashana!
This would be like making a movie about the Nazis invading America to free Japanese from internment camps…
Ur story? Sending ur ppl into slavery! Proud of that?
She''s amazing
White Hollywood is laughing at black folks. And black WOMEN can't see it.
Viola Davis: "Most of the story if fictionalized. It has to be… We have to entertain people. If we just told a history lesson… that would have been a documentary… If people want to learn more, they can investigate more." And, as people have investigated, we found your movie was the exact opposite of true history.
Slavery has been around since antiquity, since the ancient Egyptians at least. It wasn't even questioned until the 19th Century Abolitionists.
Do a film about black women who actually did something useful, like Harriet Tubman or Elizabeth Freeman, not a shrew with a machete.
How does she know the Dahomey were her ancestors?
This movie is like in 100 years they make a movie of the nazis fighting the jews to escape genocided
I love Ms Lynch in Woman King. Amazing and stunningly beautiful.
YASSS ENSLAVE QUEEN
THIS IS PEAK WOKEISM
Looking at the number of blk people who got no idea about real history , i tell you what , you guys will never get out of the ghetto
You know that tribe of people owned slaves right and that's how they made their wealth.
"Walk like you have 3000 Ancestors walking behind you."
😂 “You know that your taking care of as a black woman, You know that your ancestors aren’t going to be rolling in there grave.”
😅 a film glorifying slave trading! Either they didn’t bother using the internet to research the tribe or they wanted to rewrite a nasty part of history to their own happy ending story.
That’s like making a movie about Hitler and glorifying his preparations for WW.
I honestly was not familiar with Lashana Lynch before seeing the Woman King. (I don't see a lot of movies, but I made it a priority to see this one). That said, she captivated!!!! I'm a fan! She was just fantastic in this film.
So all the trolls who are obsessed Dahomey’s involvement with the slave trade: 1) such contradictions never bother you when the movie is about the founding fathers. 2) Movie is not about the slave trade, it is about this regiment the Agojie which is one of the few all female armies in world history. 3) The title character is a fictitious character running one of the many regiments in this army, she confronts the king head on on the issue of slavery, they do not shy away or white wash this fact the way Hollywood did with movies regarding 1776. 4) not all of it is fiction and artistic license, the scene where the title character confronts the king she tries to convince him to move the kingdoms economy off of slavery and onto Pom oil production. This actually did happen, there was a push among a small group of the women generals but sadly it did not work. 5) this movie is not about Wakanda. It is about a forgotten chapter in history in which a patriarchal kingdom actually turned to the recruitment of women. The fact that slavery was involved does not make the figures represented a rewrite of history, it makes them human. I mean when you watch films about other figures in history do you really believe that the founders were not cruel to persons of color, that Queen Elizabeth (I)did not torture Catholics, or that queen Isabella‘s military campaign to recapture Spain was a mistake as she disrupted a 500 year old peace. 6) And if such contradictions in portrayals I just mentioned bother you as well, then you have no business objecting when Confederate statues come down or when a state abolishing Columbus Day. Because unlike this movie (Which falls under arts and entertainment) such symbols actually were established as a means to rewrite history. And I’m sorry but you don’t get to complain about one unless you’re going to be consistent with the other. 7) those of you who have been accused of racism should note pointing out Dahomey’s participation in the slave trade is a frequent tactic by racists and white supremacists as a means of vindicating or downplaying Europe and colonial North America’s Legacy with regards to slavery and institutional racism.
Reading the reviews and also reading the historical background from many contributors, I don't think this movie tells an authentic picture of the events. Per my understanding it looks like the movie is based on victimizing one race and demonizing the other. Not sure if it helps in people recognizing the true story and instead just getting carried away with false emotions, furthering the divide.
This movie was sooo good! And I pretty much fell in love with Lashana Lynch, full stop. <3
I cried when the attackers put a noose around Viola's neck, poured an unknown substance, likely bleach, on her and used their hands, feet and teeth as weapons to assault her and yelled, "This is MAGA country,"
I feel like some of you don’t know how movies work. There will always be some parts that are true to history and then some dramatization or exaggeration of the history to make it more entertaining or show what we WISH would’ve happened in history. I never see these types of comments on shows or movies based on white history like The Vikings or The Last Kindgom. You all are so upset for another reason, let’s be honest.
“Authentically” must translate into something totally different for sub-Saharan decent people.
Powerful…period