Take it away, Lela… Dont Go, written by Safia Dirie and directed by Rob Hardy, went to a whole other level.

Spike LeesInside Manwas the inspiration for all those interrogation scenes.

It became a round-robin of scene work and made for incredibly long days.

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Arija gives MJ a beautiful soft power, and Tim undercuts white Donovans menace with a quirky mirth.

With all those long hours, its damn lucky that we really like each other.

They are just the right amount of supportive, prepared, and most importantly, cuckoo-bananas.

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So simple, yet so hard.

Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College.

This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students.

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He graduated the spring before I started, so we didnt know each other.

Take my word for it.