![]() Optimized for your mobile phone, Underground allows you to quickly search, compare prices, read reviews, share products with friends, access Gold Box deals (US only) and make purchases securely. Shop millions of digital and physical products in Amazon’s catalog and manage your orders from anywhere. Unlimited lives, levels, upgrades – everything. Underground combines Amazon’s best mobile shopping experience with instant streaming of Amazon Instant Video PLUS over $10,000 in apps, games, and even in-app items that are actually free. ![]() “The Underground Railroad” is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.The Amazon Underground app includes enhanced features and access to content that isn’t available on the Amazon Shopping app found on Google Play. And it actually went through different iterations of how the final chapter would unfold and the way that it played was definitely somewhat of a surprise to me. You don’t want to tip your hand, especially with things like that. Letting the character who is having the flashback, letting them have that moment rather than trying to play, ‘This is a significant thing that will play in later.’ I think that also helps it be more effective. I think it’s much better that it’s a thing that happened and letting the story do that work for you. I think leaning into or trying to play the foreshadowing, it doesn’t– for me, I don’t think it really serves me as an actor. I think it’s really sort of playing it as it plays. And this is part of being a free person, especially being a free Black person, is you have to know how to protect yourself in this world. I think that she needs to know how to protect herself and defend herself. Honestly, that moment where I’m teaching Cora to shoot, that’s just a moment where I think that she needs to know how to shoot. We didn’t really talk about that exact moment as it played out. Did you and Barry and Thuso work through the importance of that scene when you first shot it, knowing it would come back to play such an important role in Cora’s story immediately after Royal’s death? In the closing moments of the episode, Royal is already dead, but Cora thinks back to the day he taught her how to shoot a gun in order for her to gain the confidence she needs to kill slave catcher Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton). ‘Underground Railroad': Barry Jenkins on Mabel’s Story, Cutting Finale Scene That Was ‘Too Beautiful’ to Keep But in the meantime, you just live in the beauty and the peace of those relationships as much as you can. And the same thing goes with Cora and Royal, they get to a certain place, but life has other plans for us and that’s just the way it is. And that’s what we did - until things changed. ![]() But in order to just kind of continue through your life, you need to live in the positivity as much as you can. And that’s not what anyone was expecting. The massacre at the end of Episode 9, that’s something that is out of the ordinary. The moment that you’re talking about, that’s the anomaly. It’s been successful and safe for a very, very long time. And I think that that’s sort of what the deal is with Valentine Farm. But it’s not like I go through the world looking for everything to sort of fall apart. And my sort of instant reply all the time is, ‘It’s never really a problem until someone else makes it a problem.’ It’s like, my life is fine and then someone does something and then all of a sudden, there’s this component that just sort of throws everything into this really dark place. I deal with people asking me questions about race and stuff a lot. But the thing that we really leaned into was the hope and the light that is Valentine Farm. It was obviously really triggering for me and I found myself blind with rage in certain moments when we’re shooting those scenes. What was it like for you filming the massacre scene on Valentine Farm, a brutal attack that culminates in Royal’s death while he and Cora are trying to escape? And they’re trying to find their way to each other because I think they’re both drawn to each other by something that is sort of undefinable. It’s a really uneasy pairing for a while because they just come from two completely different societies. There is just the connection that instantly happens between them and the relationship that forms between them. And there’s something just in her bearing, especially in the way that Thuso plays Cora, that is just transfixing. I think that he is drawn to her instantly. TheWrap: How would you describe Cora and Royal’s romantic relationship, and what it’s like for an escaped slave and born-free Black person to be in a relationship at this time in history that “The Underground Railroad” takes place? ‘Underground Railroad': Aaron Pierre on Caesar and Cora’s ‘Eerie, Unsettling’ Time in South Carolina
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