From print to screen: the evolution of ‘Precious’
Before it was a film, “Precious” was a screenplay. And before it was a screenplay, it was a novel called “Push.” We talk to Sapphire, who wrote the book, and Geoffrey Fletcher, who wrote the screenplay based on that novel, about what it took for the character of Clareece Precious Jones to evolve from print to screen.
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