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12 Years A Slave has already drawn comparisons to Django Unchained, Adepero clarifies that the two films are completely different after all Twelve Years A Slave is based on a true story and not a Western fantasy depiction of slavery.
I think the comparisons are going to be there. But they are completely different films. This is based on a true story and its an actual narrative. Its just the hard cold painful truth of slavery and everyone who knows Steve McQueen knows that he gives it to you straight, beautiful, layered and specific. In the film, I play Eliza who is kind of similar to the main character (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) in that shes been living like a free woman. Shes her masters concubine and she has two children one for her master. She has her own house, servants, and has been living with her master on his plantation, living the life. But then she and her children are kidnapped without the knowledge of her master and sold into slavery, which is how she meets the main character.
Basically, I think Steve McQueen is a genius. Working with actors like Chiwetel Ejiofor, Paul Giamatti, and Benedict Cumberbatch, I remember sitting at the table one day, because we would all get together for dinners, thinking to myself, how did I get here? It was one of those experiences that reminded me of why I act. After I did that film it cemented that I cant just do anything. Steves another example of someone who isnt waiting. He just tells the stories that he wants to tell and hes not apologetic about it.