In 2000 I made my way up the walkway of a house outside of Seattle with my husband, author Steven Barnes, to see his longtime friend Octavia Butler. We were greeted by the sound of Motown music ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) --Actress Mallori Johnson said she always was keenly aware of the gravity anchoring her TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's 1979 novel Kindred, which follows Dana, a ...
In Octavia Butler’s novel, Dana (Mallori Johnson) and Kevin (Micah Stock) are married. In the FX on Hulu adaptation, they meet in the first episode. “I didn’t want people to feel safe about their ...
During her last quarter at Julliard, Mallori Johnson was learning everything she could about auditioning — how to dress, how to study a scene, and how to interact with casting directors to anticipate ...
In his TV adaptation of the Octavia Butler novel, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins changed parts of the story but kept the author’s focus on “making the familial political.” By Salamishah Tillet “If a ‘Kindred’ ...