American actor Donald Glover was filming the third season of his comedy-drama series ‘Atlanta’ in London when a group of people approached him and the show’s writers at a bar and accused them of wearing ” hammers” – a slang term for ‘guns’, according to his brother and screenwriter Stephen Glover.
Stephen said: “It was the first night (filming in London). This group of people is approaching. And maybe one of them notices or recognizes Donald. And she (a girl) stops and they start asking if they know somewhere. over here for a drink. »
“I think we talked to them for a second. It’s this girl and two or three other guys. (One said) ‘You all carry hammers!’ “. Donald’s brother went on to claim that since all of the “Atlanta” writers were also black, the stranger implied that they all “broke” into the bar.
Speaking at a Television Critics Association press conference, Stephen added: “All the writers in ‘Atlanta’ are black. So he’s referring to the fact that we all have hammers, and we can just walk into that place, which we kind of ignored. He was joined at the conference by his co-writer Stefani Robinson, who went on to explain that the incident was so “insulting” and took some time for himself and his fellow writers to figure out what happened. had passed.
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He said: “It was so insulting, but not insulting at the same time because it took us five minutes to fully understand! “He got to a point where if the insinuation was lost on us, he got specific and said, ‘You’re black, you’ve been to jail and you do things like that’. Like he keeps doubling down on it. »
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