They say the devil’s in the details, and with “Sinners,” Oscar-winning production designer Hannah Beachler paid special attention to every cloud of dust that rolled onto the set.
As soon as Ryan Coogler told her he was writing the script, Beachler began researching. The director had just done the Blues Trail through the Mississippi Delta, talking to blues artists and learning the history behind the music, so Beachler decided to do the same. “I wanted to be there talking to older generations and younger generations. We met a couple of owners of some juke joints, and [learned] what the vernacular and the architecture were,” she tells Variety, explaining that
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