Megan Thee Stallion (2016).

“The famous slap, where Tibbs retaliates against a racist landowner, wasn’t improvised, though, as has been suggested. I kept telling [Sidney] Poitier that Tibbs was a sophisticated detective, not used to being pushed around. I showed him how to do the slap. ‘Don’t hit him on the ear,’ I said. ‘I want you to really give him a crack on the fatty side of his cheek.’ I told him to practise on me. A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo.

”Young black people in northern cities responded to the film in a much more visceral way than the whites did. This was the first time a black actor was wearing the fancy suit and being looked up to.” -Director of In the Heat of the Night (1967), Norman Jewison on The Slap Heard Round The World

Eve Polastri being relatable

RYUJIN + YEJI / MAMA 2021 (211211)

Ben (Tony Todd) and Barbara (Patricia Tallman) in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990)

“We have the guns. If we’re careful, we could get away. You told me to fight! Well, I’m fighting. I’m not panicking. This place is not safe. Not upstairs or down! We should leave before it’s too late.” 

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan

Megan’s Instagram Update (March 11, 2024)

Wendell & Wild (2022), post credits scene with Kat Elliot