Candice Carty-Williams is the author and showrunner of "Queenie," a new Onyx Collective series on Hulu. Hulu Candice Carty-Williams borrowed “Bridget Jones’s Diary” from her aunt’s bookshelf “when I was too young.” She saw the film versions when she was older and realized she, too, wanted to make something similar.
The rub? Bridget Jones is white; Renee Zellweger is white, Candice Carty-Williams is not. “But that’s OK,” Carty-Williams says. “These stories — these facets of womanhood — are universal, across race.
” To make her story resonate with others, Carty-Williams wrote about a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in South London. Called “Queenie,” the book was a bestseller, establishing its author and leading to a series set to premiere in June on Hulu. In the show’s mix: Carty-Williams, who’s not only the creator and executive producer but also the showrunner.
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“It was really important to me to be involved from the beginning to the end,” she says. “I’m incredibly exacting as a person and every single decision I had to be a part of.” Dionne Brown stars as Queenie, a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither.
The series "Queenie" airs on Hulu. Latoya Okuneye, Lionsgate Most important: Authenticity. To make sure “Queenie” looked like the life she wrote about, Carty-Williams shot the series on location.
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