The story behind 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco' — how two lifelong friends turned a personal story of Bay Area gentrification into the movie of the year
The Last Black Man in San Francisco,Sundance Film Festival
“Tell him the Barry Jenkins story,” roars Fails, who strides through the hotel door in the middle of the sentence. Talbot suddenly gets a sheepish look on his face.“We didn’t know any filmmakers in the Bay Area,” Fails says, ribbing his best friend as they settle into a nearby booth. “We see“‘Someone’s doing it, and he’s here!’ So we reached out to him,” Talbot says.
“I thought it was a joke at first,” Fails says. “Like, why the fuck would anybody be interested in my story? Whatever, it happened. But Joe sort of helped me see that other people might get something out of it. I don’t know that we could have made the movie if we hadn’t bonded in that particular way.”
And as for Jimmie, despite the fact that several potential backers told the duo they’d sign on if some hot young actor was procured to play the lead, the idea was always that Fails would play his screen counterpart, period. “Not only has he been starring in my movies since we were kids,” Talbot says, “but he’s the fucking quintessential San Franciscan. He had one foot in every world growing up. Every kid in S.F. knew Jimmie. He was the only one who could do this justice.
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