Barry Jenkins didn’t get to deliver the speech he wanted to give at the Oscars last year.
It’s easy to understand why: “Moonlight” wasn’t initially announced as the winner of Best Picture, and so when he came onstage for the second time that night he was too flustered to read his prepared remarks.Just now at South by Southwest, Jenkins finally rectified that.“Tarell [Alvin McCraney, co-writer] and I are Chiron.
We are that boy.
And when you watch ‘Moonlight,’ you don’t assume a boy who grew up how and where we did would grow up and make a piece of art that wins an Academy Award — certainly don’t think he would grow up to win Best Picture,” he said while delivering a Keynote at SXSW.“I’ve said that a lot and what I’ve had to admit is that I placed those limitations on myself.
I denied myself that dream.
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