Skylan Brooks, Jennifer Nelson and Angela Ortíz
Photos: ©2018 Angela María Ortíz S.
We got a chance to chat with actor Skylan Brooks and director Jennifer Yuh Nelson from The Darkest Minds. We talked about Skylan’s character’s power and what took director Nelson so long to shoot her first live action film.
The film comes from the producers of Stranger Things and Arrival. And based on the novel by Alexandra Bracken.
SYNOPSIS: When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough and they must wage a resistance.
Starring Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Bradley Whitford, Harris Dickinson, Patrick Gibson, Skylan Brooks, Miya Cech, and Gwendoline Christie. The Darkest Minds is in theaters now.
