{"id":1133,"date":"2015-09-23T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2015-09-23T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:26:13","slug":"nat-turner-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/nat-turner-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Turner Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot_2015-09-23-14-11-39-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1134\" src=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot_2015-09-23-14-11-39-1-300x298.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2015-09-23-14-11-39-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot_2015-09-23-14-11-39-1-300x298.png 300w, http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot_2015-09-23-14-11-39-1-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot_2015-09-23-14-11-39-1.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actor Nate Parker recently posted a picture on Instagram of him and veteran filmmaker Spike Lee with the caption: \u201cBig Bro Spike Lee stopped in on the edit to give wisdom and show love.\u201d #birthofanationmovie #natturner<\/p>\n<p>Parker is busy working on his directorial debut film \u201cThe Birth of a Nation.\u201d Aside from directing, he will also star in the film as Nat Turner. The film will focus on the 1831 slave rebellion that was led by Turner. It is said to be one of the most successful revolts in American history resulting in the deaths of between 55 to 65 whites in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Parker has expressed that playing Nat Turner has been a dream of his although Turner was considered a \u201cbad guy\u201d in history. \u00a0The actor had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA lot of people thought he was a bad guy, but it\u2019s [about one\u2019s] perspective.\u201d \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think he was a bad guy at all, but we all have our ideas of what we want and why we want it, and what we\u2019ll do to achieve those things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nate Parker is one of my favorite actors. I have yet to see a movie that he has starred in that I was disappointed\u00a0by, and with Spike Lee backing the film I think it will definitely be worth watching!<\/p>\n<p>Do you guys plan on watching?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanintellectuals.com\/2015\/09\/17\/nate-parker-gabrielle-union-to-star-in-nat-turner-biopic-entitled-the-birth-of-a-nation\/\">Urban Intellectuals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Nate Parker recently posted a picture on Instagram of him and veteran filmmaker Spike Lee with the caption: \u201cBig Bro Spike Lee stopped in on the edit to give wisdom and show love.\u201d #birthofanationmovie #natturner Parker is busy working on his directorial debut film \u201cThe Birth of a Nation.\u201d Aside from directing, he will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/nat-turner-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nat Turner Is Coming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}