Barry Jenkins on Making ‘The Underground Railroad’ During One of the Largest Civil Rights Movements in American History
The past five years have been good to Barry Jenkins. After directing Moonlight (and winning best picture and best adapted screenplay at the 2017 Oscars) and 2018’s If Beale Street Could Talk, he announced he would be taking on Colson Whitehead’s soon-to-be Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Underground Railroad as his first foray into television.
The series, which debuted on Prime Video in May, is a sweeping 10-episode arc that follows an enslaved young woman in Georgia named