Meta Golding: There's also some video and audio of her in the fifties being interviewed about the boycott. Jo Reed: Now, how did you begin to get inside of her? What was your entry point? But something that I just was kind of like I don't know how I could not do this. So it was a huge challenge, incredibly intimidating. But then it was kind of what an actor waits for, you know, to play someone who meant so much to so many people and was such a complicated person and a brave person. And I mean you could do a movie of many different parts of her life and many different things that she did. Parks I was like “I can't do this, How am I supposed to”- I mean she was really an incredible woman her entire life. And at first as I started to learn more about Mrs. I mean it was such an honor to be-to even be asked. Jo Reed: You’re embodying an icon like Rosa Parks. And then I read the script and I was like “Oh my goodness, it's a really well-done script.” So it was extra humbling to have this just kind of show up- it was like a miracle. I just simply got a call and asked if I would be interested in playing this role? And at first, I was like “what Rosa Parks? Would I be interested?” You know, it seemed like a crazy concept. Meta Golding: Believe it or not they asked-there was no audition. And although Meta Golding is an accomplished and experienced actor-she wasn’t quite prepared for the phone call from TV One. In films, Meta is probably best known for the Hunger Games playing the warrior Enobaria and she also has a television resume as long as my arm including Criminal Minds, Dark Blue, CSI, and Colony. Parks' quiet determination comes through in Meta Golding's strong performance. But, Rosa Parks, of course occupies a central role as the woman who said “No." Mrs. As the name suggests, Behind the Movement focuses on lesser-known figures whose work ensured the boycotts success and who helped launch the modern civil rights movement. And it also shows how they brought the 55,000 members of the black community to create the most successful boycott in American history. Behind the Movement is an original film produced for TV One that tells the story of the people who decided Rosa Park’s arrest would be the catalyst that would challenge the segregation of public transportation. On December 5th, the black community of Montgomery began a boycott of the bus company that lasted until December 20, 1956. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger and was arrested in Montgomery Alabama. And this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced at the National Endowment for the Arts. Jo Reed: That’s actor Meta Golding, talking about her role of Rosa Parks in the new TV movie Behind the Movement. And it’s also the personal journey of Mrs. So it's a behind-the-scenes look at how the boycott was organized and put together. Meta Golding: This film tells the story from the day that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to four days later when the boycott started. Music Credit: “Some Are More Equal,” written and performed by Paul Rucker and Hans Teuber, from the album, Oil.
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