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Based On True Story | Waitress
A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida. Starring Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Jason Mitchell in prominent roles. Directed by Janicza Bravo.
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A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida. Starring Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Jason Mitchell in prominent roles. Directed by Janicza Bravo.
Outstanding Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Outstanding Independent Film | 2022 | Janicza
Outstanding Achievement in Casting Studio or Independent Feature Comedy | 2022 | Kim
Hall of Shame | 2021
2021 | Janicza
2020 | Janicza
Dramatic | 2020 | Janicza
Best Feature | 2022
Best Cinematography | 2022 | Ari
Best Screenplay | 2022
Best Supporting Male | 2022 | Colman
Best Director | 2022 | Janicza
Tops | 2022 | Janicza
Best Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under Million Dollars | 2022
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture | 2022
Best Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Best Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Outstanding First Screenplay | 2022
Outstanding Screenplay | 2022
Outstanding Ensemble | 2022 | Kim
Outstanding Emerging Director | 2022 | Janicza
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance Female | 2022 | Taylour
Outstanding Editing | 2022
Outstanding Actress | 2022 | Taylour
Best Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Excellence in Contemporary Film | 2022
Breakthrough Film Artist | 2022 | Janicza
Best Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Best Actress | 2022 | Taylour
Best Supporting Actor | 2022 | Colman
Best Indie Film | 2021
Best Supporting Actor | 2021 | Colman
Outstanding Supporting Performance | 2021 | Colman
Outstanding Lead Performance | 2021 | Taylour
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,500,000 USD
Based on a true story told in a popular twitter thread containing 148 tweets written by Detroit waitress A'Ziah "Zola" King in October 2015. The story quickly went viral, garnering the recognition of people such as Missy Elliott, Solange and Ava DuVernay. About a month later, Rolling Stone magazine published an article interviewing people involved in the story.
Each "tweet" sound in the film indicates a direct quote or moment that was taken from the original Twitter thread
To prepare for the role of Zola, Taylour Paige, who is a native of Inglewood, Calif., worked at Crazy Girls on Sunset and La Brea as a stripper for a month and actually took her clothes off onstage. Paige said the job proved both beneficial as research and as a source of income. She said, "I actually really needed the money. I was like, 'Fuck it. Why don't I just go in undercover and see what this is like?'" It turned out to be much more of an emotionally shaping experience than she anticipated. "I just wanted to have a sense of agency before I left to go do the movie, and what better place than working in a strip club where it's eat or be eaten? I didn't want to look like an actor trying to dance, I didn't want to look like a dancer trying to strip, I wanted to look like this person in the given circumstances who works at a restaurant and also dances." She added she also wanted to be "completely uninhibited, with no judgment."
Riley Keough's portrayal of Stefani is supposed to make the audience squirm. As co-star Taylour Paige put it, Keough's "in blackface" for the whole film, complete with a blaccent. Keough made it clear that cultural appropriation was a huge part of the conversation between herself and director Janicza Bravo.
During Riley Keough's 2021 interview with Sam Sanders on National Public Radio, Sanders reported that Keough "had to get special training on how to play a white woman trying very offensively to sound a certain type of 'black.'"
"[first lines] Zola: You wanna hear a story about how me and this bitch here fell out? It's kinda long, but it's full of suspense."
"Zola: What the fuck is wrong with you? This is messy! You are messy! Your brain is broke! Have fun, be safe, wear condoms."
