Beale Street

Baldwin’s writing about race and American society was always entwined with love stories, from his pathbreaking 1956 LGBTQ+ novel “Giovanni’s Room” to his late classic, 1974’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

Since "Atlanta," he has stared in a collection of films, including "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Widows," "Bullet Train," and the "Spider-Verse" films.

You worked with him on "If Beale Street Could Talk," which he adapted and directed.

As 2018’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” based on the classic James Baldwin novel, and Amazon’s 2021 limited series “The Underground Railroad” have added new notches to his personal resume, Jenkins’ production company Pastel has planted a flag as a force in independent filmmaking.

“Moonlight,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “The Underground Railroad” “are of a certain time in my life and of a certain moment in my artistic development,” he said.