12 Oct 08 Gina Prince-Bythewood and ‘The Secret Life of Bees’
The director first dismissed ‘Bees,’ only to later fall in love with the book and bring it to the screen. SIX YEARS ago, when Gina Prince-Bythewood was first offered “The Secret Life of Bees” to adapt into a screenplay and direct, she blew it off without even reading the book. Never mind that Sue Monk Kidd’s novel about a young white girl growing up in the civil-rights-era South was a bestseller. Prince-Bythewood had just come off directing two movies without […]
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