Q最初你为何选择所罗门·诺瑟谱这个题材?我希望讲述一个关于奴隶制的故事,于是我想,这个故事从何开始呢?一个自由人被绑架后变成了一个奴隶看来是一个不错的选择。于是,重点就是如何让观众跟随这个奴隶的经历并置身其中。一开始,我和约翰·莱德利一同编写剧本,虽然进展也还顺利,但很耗费精力。我那身为历史学家的妻子对我说“为什么不从真实的历史中发掘素材呢”。于是我们就一起开始查找资料,直到有一天她拿着一本名叫《为奴十二载》的书告诉我说,“我想就是它了”。我看过后也难掩兴奋之情,就像是自己刚有了创意,而写好的剧本就已拿在了手中。 Q Why did you choose Solomon Nohoso at first? I wanted to tell a story about slavery, so where do I think this story begins? It seems a free man who has been kidnapped to become a slave s Choice. So, the point is how to get the audience to follow and experience the slave experience. From the very beginning, I wrote the script with John Liddell, and it worked very hard, but it was very energetic. My wife, a historian, said to me, “Why do not we discover the material from the real history?” So we started looking for information together until one day she told me with a book titled “Slave Twelve,” “I suppose it was it.” I can not hide my excitement after watching it, just as I had a creative idea, and the written script was already in my hand.